Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
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Comte coined "sociology" and built a whole philosophy around the idea that science could explain everything—including society itself. The French mathematician basically invented positivism, the granddaddy of modern scientific thinking.
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Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.
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