Comments on the Study of Tendencies and Lines of Direction 1

Comte has taught that the final goal of science is to foretell future occurrences. This idea was only a logical and necessary outcome of the fundamental view of positivism, namely, that all our knowledge is relative, and that we can never attain absolute knowledge; thus the practical value remains as the only value of all knowledge: the application of science to our use. Along this line of thought Comte came to his famous formula: “Savoir pour prévoir prévoir pour prévenir.”