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

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 George Saintsbury

Condillac, the French disciple of Locke, made himself everywhere the apostle of analysis; and analysis was also in him, or at least should have been, the study of thought.

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

In the second section of the treatise Condillac invests his statue with the sense of touch, which first informs it of the existence of external objects.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

Condillac himself was an abbé, and possessing a sufficient benefice, he lived for the most part quietly upon it, and took no part in the political, or even the literary life of the times.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

It was fancied that the process of inferring new truths was only the substitution of one arbitrary sign for another; and Condillac even described science as une langue bien faite.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing

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