COMTISM

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Meaning:

Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Comtism" is a kind of...):

logical positivism; positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))

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