Cours de philosophie positive
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Cours de philosophie positive is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically presents his philosophy of positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences.
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| Cours de philosophie positive canonical | 6 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cours de philosophie positive Context triple: [Auguste Comte, majorWork, Cours de philosophie positive]
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A.
Pensées philosophiques
Pensées philosophiques is an early 18th-century philosophical work by Denis Diderot that challenges religious dogma and advocates for deism and rational inquiry.
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B.
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences
The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences is a major systematic work by G. W. F. Hegel that presents his comprehensive account of logic, nature, and spirit within a unified philosophical framework.
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C.
The System of Ethics
The System of Ethics is a foundational philosophical work by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that systematically develops his idealist moral philosophy and theory of human freedom.
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D.
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences is the concluding section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that develops his influential account of the methods and philosophical foundations of the social and moral sciences.
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E.
Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
"Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cours de philosophie positive Target entity description: Cours de philosophie positive is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically presents his philosophy of positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences.
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A.
Pensées philosophiques
Pensées philosophiques is an early 18th-century philosophical work by Denis Diderot that challenges religious dogma and advocates for deism and rational inquiry.
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B.
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences
The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences is a major systematic work by G. W. F. Hegel that presents his comprehensive account of logic, nature, and spirit within a unified philosophical framework.
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C.
The System of Ethics
The System of Ethics is a foundational philosophical work by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that systematically develops his idealist moral philosophy and theory of human freedom.
-
D.
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences is the concluding section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that develops his influential account of the methods and philosophical foundations of the social and moral sciences.
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E.
Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
"Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book series
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| advocates |
classification of sciences
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observation-based knowledge ⓘ |
| author |
Auguste Comte
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linked to:
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
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| centralConcept |
empiricism
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scientific method ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| defines | hierarchy of the sciences ⓘ |
| describedAs | foundational work of positivist philosophy ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
astronomy
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biology ⓘ chemistry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy
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scientific treatise ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Volume 1 of Cours de philosophie positive
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Volume 2 of Cours de philosophie positive ⓘ Volume 3 of Cours de philosophie positive ⓘ Volume 4 of Cours de philosophie positive ⓘ Volume 5 of Cours de philosophie positive ⓘ Volume 6 of Cours de philosophie positive ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
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linked to:
Course of Positive Philosophy
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| influenced |
Herbert Spencer
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John Stuart Mill ⓘ development of sociology as a discipline ⓘ logical positivism ⓘ Émile Durkheim ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
epistemology
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hierarchy of the sciences ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ positivism ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| numberOfVolumes | 6 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | positivism ⓘ |
| proposes | law of three stages ⓘ |
| publicationEndYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| publicationStartYear | 1830 ⓘ |
| publisher | Bachelier ⓘ |
| rejects |
metaphysics
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theological explanations in science ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| translatedBy | Harriet Martineau ⓘ |
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