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Condillac, Étienne Bonnot De - ātyĕnˈ bônōˈ də kôNdēyäkˈ, 1715–80, French philosopher who developed the theory of sensationalism (i.e., that all knowledge comes from the senses and that there are no innate ideas). He took holy orders, and in 1768 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. His


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    Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge » Read Now

    by Etienne Bonnot de Condillac. 225 pgs.

    Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on...
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    Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation (Discussion of Condillac begins on p. 51) » Read Now

    by Talbot J. Taylor. 267 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Mutual Misunderstanding presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patters underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Crice, Michael Dummet, Stanley...
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    Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion (Chap. 4 "Condillac and the Identity of the Other") » Read Now

    by Julie Candler Hayes. 243 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse or "systematic spirit." Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes...
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    The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure (Chap. 11 "Condillac on the Origin of Language and Thought") » Read Now

    by Roy Harris, Talbot J. Taylor. 234 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    As readers are introduced to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent.

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