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of thinkers would make that to be founded on
psychology. They would have the same reason to do
so that they have to make that the dig a similar foundation for
logic.

But my classification of the sciences will
give you a first inkling of my notion of the
position that logic holds among the sciences.

This classification adopts the general idea,
of Comte's the classification, called Comte's. When I
speak of it as "the classification called Comte's,"
I must state that of my own knowledge, I know
no reason for not simply calling it Comte's
classification. But Dr. Robert Flint and other writers say very positively aver very solemnly, "If that classification
possess any merits they must be ascribed to Dr. Burdin,
who conceived it and to Saint-Simon who first received
and published it; and not to Comte, although he showed

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