 The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 4731886Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 612 pages
...principle of which is that each branch of our knowledge passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious...Metaphysical, or abstract ; and the Scientific, or Positive — determined to erect his philosophy into a religion. There was, Vol. 144.— No. 288. 2 o to to... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1880 - 412 pages
...our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the theological or fictitious;...metaphysical or abstract and the scientific or positive. In the theological stage men suppose all phenomena to be produced by the immediate action of supernatural... | |
 | Edmond de Pressensé - 1883 - 558 pages
...our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the theological or fictitious,...abstract, and the scientific or positive. . . . In the theological state the human mind, seeking to fathom the essential nature of being, the first and... | |
 | Edmond de Pressensé - 1883 - 582 pages
...branch of our knowledge, pa.sse£' "successively throiigji'. three different theoretical conditions 1 'the theological or "'fictitious, the metaphysical...abstract,' and the scientific or- positive. . . . In the theological state the human mind, .seeking to fathom . the essential "rlatare of being, the first... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1889 - 478 pages
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 | 1885 - 492 pages
...region of myths and fables. He describes the development of human intelligence as passing through three conditions — the theological, or fictitious, the...metaphysical, or abstract, and the scientific, or positive. In its final positive state the mind has given over its vain search for God and absolute truth, and is... | |
 | Albion W. Small - 1890 - 164 pages
...our leading conceptions—each branch of our knowledge—passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the theological, or fictitious;...its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, .,. - «-»r- " •- —* r^fjf .... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1891 - 556 pages
...Ingram, LL.U., p. 8 (A. & C. Black, 1888). * Comte's well-known three stages of human knowledge : " The Theological or fictitious ; the Metaphysical or abstract ; and the Scientific or positive." •'Positive Philosophy"; Introduction, chap, i.; Miss Martineau's edition (J. Chapman, 1853). "We... | |
 | Albert Brisbane - 1893 - 410 pages
..." Each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes successively through three theoretical conditions : the theological, or fictitious...metaphysical, or abstract ; and the scientific, or positive." ButTurgot had already expressed himself on the same subject as follows : " Before comprehending the... | |
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