Elaborating and analyzing August comet's Anthropological foundation in positivism

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Abstract

Anthropology in a sense other than the discipline of Anthropology is a
kind of knowledge that the paradigms of social sciences are depended
on it, in their structure and methods. August Comte as leader of
positivism constructed positivism and sociology upon Anthropology.
He depicted humane in a way that social life and consequently Social
physics can be derived out of it. This process is a testimony for the
framework of science which is not neutral about ontological and
Anthropological propositions. And scientific knowledge in social
sciences is depended on nonobservable propositions that science not
only does not talk about it but also has not sufficient tools for
scrutinizing it. Finding August Comte's Anthropological propositions
and drawing their relation with different parts of the social science can
show us that the approaches of Humanity in some layers of a priori
knowledge are firstly incommensurable and secondly by altering
Anthropological foundation of an approach, new kind of scientific
knowledge can be arise.

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