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

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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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