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| | Comte, Auguste - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | COMTE, AUGUSTE [Comte, Auguste], 1798-1857, French philosopher, founder of the school of philosophy known as positivism, educated in Paris. |
 | | He sees the intellectual development of man covered by what is called the Law of the Three Stages—theological, in which events were largely attributed to supernatural forces; metaphysical, in which natural phenomena are thought to result from fundamental energies or ideas; and positive, in which phenomena are explained by observation, hypotheses, and experimentation. |
 | | The former maid of Sarah BERNHARDT and concierge of the Maison d'Auguste Comte. |
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