Diderot
Americannoun
noun
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Following Buffon, Diderot posited three levels of life: the life of the entire animal, the life of each of its organs and the life of the molecule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The incident happened at a museum dedicated to French philosopher Denis Diderot in Landres, north-eastern France on Sunday night.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
While brief accounts of several hundred dead scholars and public intellectuals militates against sustained reading, a few pages at a time about interdisciplinary giants such as Leibniz, Diderot and Germaine de Stael can be energizing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2020
I was less moved by one of the high shrines of atheism, in Langres, the hometown of the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2019
What is important here is not, despite what Diderot says, the idea that experience is the best way to acquire knowledge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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