The Father of Positivism,Auguste Comte,believed in All the Following EXCEPT

question 7

Multiple Choice

The father of positivism,Auguste Comte,believed in all the following EXCEPT

• A) contemporary society was in a state of intellectual anarchy.
• B) the laws of human behavior can be discovered just as the law of gravity has been; one such law is the "law of three stages" to describe the development of human knowledge.
• C) in the most primitive stage of human knowledge, natural phenomena was explained by the supernatural.
• D) the metaphysical stage was a transitional stage in which phenomena were explained through abstractions.
• E) in the final stage, which included the Enlightenment and Comte's own time, all illusions are dispelled and the mind is convinced only by observation and verifiable information.

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Definitions:

Transfer Of Emotions

The process of projecting one's own emotions or responses onto others, often unconsciously.

Denial

A refusal to believe or accept; disowning.

Refusal To Admit

The act of not accepting someone into a facility or institution, often based on specific criteria or standards.

Standard Communication Model

A theoretical framework describing how messages are transmitted from a sender to a receiver through a medium, incorporating feedback.