 | Auguste Comte - Positivism - 1855 - 852 pages
...both in the facts of our organization and in our historical experience. The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions — each branch of...knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical condititions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract ; and the... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 528 pages
...Three Stages of Humanity, the Theological, the Metaphysical and the Positive. M. Comte says : " That each of our leading conceptions — each branch of...knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Thcological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific,... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1857 - 612 pages
...both in the facts of our organization and in our historical experience. The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions, the theological or fictitious, the metaphysical or abstract, and the scientific... | |
 | James Sanford Lamar - Bible - 1860 - 336 pages
...M. Auguste Comte is based upon the discovery of what he calls the law of human progress, viz.: "That each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific,... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1862 - 330 pages
...proof, both in the facts of our organisation and in our historical experience. The law is this : that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions — the Theological or fictitious ; the Metaphysical or abstract ; and the Scientific... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 826 pages
...eye. CUD WE may fairly apply to the subject of Sleep tlie well-known theory of Auguste Comte, that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : first, the theological; secondly, the metaphysical; and thirdly, the positive... | |
 | Robert Flint - France - 1874 - 650 pages
...imagined of what the world has heard so much about as Comte's law of the three states — viz., that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions, the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive ; the mind, in the first,... | |
 | Benjamin Shaw - Positivism - 1880 - 86 pages
...It,will.be best, to give .the leading idea.of ,the system in Comte's own- words. He,, says : — ' " Each , of , our ^leading . conceptions — each, branch....passes. successively . , through , three, different, theoretical conditions : JI the Theological or, fictitious, the Metaphysical, . or, abstract, and.... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Biography - 1880 - 412 pages
...Comte's theory, or as he styles it " great fundamental law of human intelligence," is, that " each.of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the theological or fictitious; the metaphysical or abstract and the scientific... | |
 | Edmond de Pressensé - Ethics - 1883 - 572 pages
...proof, both in the facts of our organisation and in our historical experience. The law is this — that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our...knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the theological or fictitious, the metaphysical or abstract, and the scientific... | |
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The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, — each branch of our knowledge, — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific,... 
