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

After Condillac the history of philosophy in France during the rest of the period is of no great interest to literature.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Here, perhaps, some disciple of Condillac and Helvetius will ask us whether, in this regard, we possess authentic dictionaries of the language of savage tribes found by voyagers in the isles of the ocean?

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

Rousseau, Voltaire, Condillac, and Helvetius are in philosophic theory but pupils of Locke.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)

He has been called the logician and metaphysician of the school of Condillac.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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

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