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Mill was very much interested in the work of Auguste Comte -- the thinker who introduced both "sociology" and "positivism" into the philosophical lexicon, and Mill wrote a critical essay about Comte's philosophy in 1865 Auguste Comte & Positivism.

John Stuart Mill as a social science founder Daniel Little 2009

But Comte's writings did not provide good examples of detailed empirical study of social phenomena.

John Stuart Mill as a social science founder Daniel Little 2009

Auguste Comte's faith is, essentially, the same type of scientism or scientistic positivism that reverberates to this day, within presumptive AGW interests, among the still more apparent Dawkins & Co. sect and aficionados, in other groups as well wherein science qua science, science more rigorously and properly conceived, serves as a core, but then is greatly leveraged and presumed upon to effect much wider political, ideological and pseudo - and quasi-philosophical interests.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

One of Comte's central goals was to discover laws of development for civilizations -- a far cry from the way we would define the focus of sociology today.

Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

But Comte's writings did not provide good examples of detailed empirical study of social phenomena.

Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

Auguste Comte's faith is, essentially, the same type of scientism or scientistic positivism that reverberates to this day, within presumptive AGW interests, among the still more apparent Dawkins & Co. sect and aficionados, in other groups as well wherein science qua science, science more rigorously and properly conceived, serves as a core, but then is greatly leveraged and presumed upon to effect much wider political, ideological and pseudo - and quasi-philosophical interests.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

One of Comte's central goals was to discover laws of development for civilizations -- a far cry from the way we would define the focus of sociology today.

John Stuart Mill as a social science founder Daniel Little 2009

Mill was very much interested in the work of Auguste Comte -- the thinker who introduced both "sociology" and "positivism" into the philosophical lexicon, and Mill wrote a critical essay about Comte's philosophy in 1865 Auguste Comte & Positivism.

Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

Here are some passages from Doctor Comte's report : At the request of the Bishop of Nevers I detached and removed the rear section of the fifth and sixth right ribs as relics; I noted that there was a resistant, hard mass in the thorax, which was the liver covered by the diaphragm.

St Bernardette de Brantigny........................ 2008

Comte did reject psychology, but then again, as a field of scholarly/scientific study, psychology was rather un (der) developed in Comte's time.

Confirmation Bias and ID 2006