Condillac

American  

[kawn-dee-yak] / kɔ̃ diˈyak /

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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Example Sentences

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 Cousin, Victor

And so we find many philosophers, and among them Condillac, protesting against a theory which would place man even below the animal.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

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

The influence of Locke was the most powerful single influence in the philosophe movement of France, and Condillac took up Locke's work at exactly the point where his master had faltered.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Condillac, doctrine of, 62; skeptic of the 18th century, 187.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks