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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
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Country Discover Freedom Organize Philosophy Truth
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
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Carry Finding Mathematics Research Source

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