 Meanwhile, in the 1830s, opposing metaphysics, Auguste Comte, in France, explicated positivism, which, unlike Bacon's model, emphasizes "predictions", confirming them, and laying scientific laws, irrefutable by theology or metaphysics.Interpreting experience to reveal uniformity of nature, indeed, and thereby justify enumerative induction, Mill accepted positivism—the first modern philosophy of science.Also a political philosophy, it posed scientific knowledge as ultimately the only knowledge.