Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun comtism

1 sense of comtism

Sense 1
Comtism -- (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)
       => positivism, logical positivism -- (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))