Comte is regarded as the founder of positivism, the doctrine that all knowledge must derive from sensory experience. Mill states that Comte is the first philosopher who has attempted to extend positivism ’to all objects of human knowledge’.
Comte is regarded as the founder of positivism, the doctrine that all knowledge must derive from sensory experience. Mill states that Comte is the first philosopher who has attempted to extend positivism ’to all objects of human knowledge’.