What characterizes the positive stage in Comte’s law of three stages?

In Auguste Comte’s law of three stages, the positive stage represents the final, mature phase of human intellectual development. It is characterized by the following key elements:

• Reliance on Scientific Method: This stage abandons the "pseudoexplanations" of the theological and metaphysical phases in favor of an unrestricted adherence to the scientific method.1
• Focus on Positive Facts: Knowledge is confined strictly to the data of experience. The task of science is to study the observable facts and regularities of nature and society.12
• Formulation of Descriptive Laws: Rather than seeking ultimate reality, first causes, or absolute beginnings, the positive stage focuses on subsuming special cases under general, descriptive laws based on the observable relations between phenomena.13
• Recognition of Relative Knowledge: This stage is distinguished by an awareness of the limitations of human knowledge. Comte maintained that knowledge is always relative to the human species and to specific social and historical situations, making absolute explanations unattainable and unnecessary.3