Practice question · True or false
Comte’s law of three stages holds that knowledge passes from the theological to the positive and only then to the metaphysical stage.
Hints
- Recall which stage explains the world by abstract essences such as nature or right.
- The metaphysical stage is a transition, not a destination.
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False
Why
False. The order is theological, metaphysical, positive. The metaphysical stage sits in the middle as a halfway house in which supernatural wills have been replaced by abstract forces but explanation by observed regularity has not yet arrived.
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