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disagree with them as would appear at first
glance. On the contrary, I quite acknowledge that
there is such a science as they call positive philosophy
or Synthetic Philosophy or Cosmic Philosophy by some
other such name. That science stands in
my opinion at the head of the Sciences of
Review. But all these philosophers make a
the one of the most disastrous mistakes
possible in confounding this science with
Cenoscopy, which must not depend upon the
special sciences inasmuch as they, on the
contrary, need to depend upon it.

The reason that I hold this confusion unification
to be so dis of widely separated sciences to be so disastrous
is that it leads to the most important