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How many volumes were in Auguste Comte’s Cours de philosophie positive?
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Auguste Comte’s Cours de philosophie positive was published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842.1