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Comtist
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English
Etymology
From en Comte ist (Auguste) Comte.
Noun
en historical A follower of Comtism.
en positivist
en 1889 Agnosticism w:Thomas Henry Huxley http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/Agn.html I am not aware that there is any sect of Agnostics; and if there be, I am not its acknowledged prophet or pope. I desire to leave to the Comtists the entire monopoly of the manufacture of imitation ecclesiasticism. https://web.archive.org/web/20260929112136/http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/Agn.html 29 September 2026
en 2017 Mark Bevir Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain Cambridge University Press 9781107166684 175 https://books.google.com/books?id=yzEoDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Comtists%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Comtists%22&f=false The implied critique of the Comtists is clear: they imagined themselves an advance on the creators of putative sciences de l'homme, where they were in fact a wrong-headed deviation from the work initiated by their supposed intellectual progenitors.
Anagrams
en cimostt Simcott
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