Condillac

American  

[kawn-dee-yak] / kɔ̃ diˈjak /

noun

1. Étienne Bonnot de 1715–80, French philosopher.

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Condillac British  

/ kɔ̃dijak /

noun

1. Étienne Bonnot de (etjɛn bɔno də). 1715–80, French philosopher. He developed Locke's view that all knowledge derives from the senses in his Traité des sensations (1754)

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Condillac

Programme of the Course of 1817, and the Opening Discourse; vol. iii., lecture 1, Locke; lecture 2, Condillac; lecture 3, almost entire, and lecture 8, p.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Though it never ceased to influence individual thinkers, it had handed on to Condillac its popularity with the masses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

Condillac works upon chimeras reduced to signs, with which he sports at his ease.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

But he proposed a thorough revision, and obtained the assistance of many learned men and artists, among whom Desessarts names Louis, Condillac, d’Alembert and Diderot.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

We are, therefore, rather the adversary than the partisan of the school of Locke and Condillac, and of that of Hutcheson and Smith.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin