Comtist

English

Etymology

(Auguste) Comte +‎ -ist

Noun

Comtist (plural Comtists)

1. (historical) A follower of Comtism.

   Synonym: positivist

   • 1889, Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2017, Mark Bevir, Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 175:

     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.

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