Talk:Auguste Comte

Comte and Sieyes
Several scholars recently asserted that Comte did not coin himself the word "Sociology" but actually borrow it from Abbé Sieyes who wrote that word "Sociology" in 1788 unpublished papers. JLM 27 December 2006. Comte is not even mentioned in the wikipedia entry for praxeology, FWIW.Ramonflynn (talk) 16:02, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

A famous error of Comte??
First, this section claims that this is a "famous" error of Comte, although the citation does not say it's a famous error. Second, does a non-notable scientific mistake from the 1800s merit a separate section? One that is only 1 line long?

I'm going to remove this section for now until somebody comes back with proper citation and a justification for the section RadPaper (talk) 20:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * There were 97,600 results from googling " 'Auguste Comte' composition of planets". Of the first twenty results 13 mentioned his famous error, 6 results referred only to positivism or philosophy and one result was related images.


 * There were 49,700 results from googling " 'Auguste Comte' Young Turks' Of the first twenty results all referred to both Comte and to Young Turks. Two of the results were Wikipedia.


 * So, this error of Comte seems published probably a little more than his influence with the Young Turks, which is included in the article. The frequency of publishing seems a good indication of relevance.  Is there some better indication of relevance to show insufficient relevance for inclusion?  Without reporting his error in astrophysics, the article seems somewhat more positive in its reporting of Auguste Comte than published works in general.  So I will restore the removed subtitle while changing the adjective "famous" to something more supported by the reference, and so improve balance.  Auguste Comte is actually more famous among astrophysicists for his error in astrophysics prognostication than for his positivism.  Since this article is about Comte rather than positivism, his contribution to astrophysics is on topic.  - Fartherred (talk) 00:54, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, seems like trivial criticism. Could be worth mentioning in an article about the book itself. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:47, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Moreover, consider that spectography has dubious epistomological validity. That is because it is only an interpretation of spectrological inferments, it could be debated whether Comte's "mistake" is truly a mistake at all, or to what degree is spectography truly a fail-safe assessment of planetary composition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.10.39.191 (talk) 17:02, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

समाजशस्त्र
काँम्त यांनी सांगितलेला तीन अवस्थेचा नियम स्पष्ट करा 2401:4900:5605:8610:9D40:40AB:FFEA:E4ED (talk) 05:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Who coined term "sociology"?
This article says that Comte coined the term "sociology". The article on Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, and, indeed, the Simple English Wikipedia article on sociology say Sieyes did this. Which is correct? I had always thought the term was coined by Comte, but my background is in psychology rather than sociology. YTKJ (talk) 21:21, 15 October 2022 (UTC)