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Auguste Comte
* 1798 in Montpellier
+ 1857 in Paris
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French
philosopher 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 also fundamental to the development of
sociology.
2021 J. Giesen