POSITIVISTS
\pˈɒzɪtˌɪvɪsts], \pˈɒzɪtˌɪvɪsts], \p_ˈɒ_z_ɪ_t_ˌɪ_v_ɪ_s_t_s]\
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The followers of Auguste Comte, the founder of a philosophy called Positivism, which limits itself strictly to human experience, and therefore ignores the life to come and the relations of man with God. For practical purposes the school is merely negative.
By Henry Percy Smith
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).