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, Cabanis, d'Holbach, Helvetius, were of that generation.

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

Waterland appears to have held this view, and also Condillac.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Condillac similarly speaks of finding an incomplete piece of work finished next day in his head.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Starting from the principles of Condillac and Helvetius, that the very faculties as well as ideas are derived from sensation, and moral rules from self-love, it almost reaches the same point as D'Holbach.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

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 Cousin, Victor