Condorcet

[kawn-dawr-se]

noun

1. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Marquis de, 1743–94, French mathematician and philosopher.

Condorcet

/ kɔndɔrsɛ /

noun

1. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de. 1743–94, French philosopher and politician. His works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)

Example Sentences

Condorcet had unshakeable faith in enlightened experts to manage French citizens as well as the fates of those outside Europe who were, as he put it, “vegetating in the infant condition of early times.”

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But here’s an important snag in electing Condorcet candidates: they don’t always exist.

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Condorcet wrote the Sketch while hiding from the extremist wing of the French Revolution.

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Thus the great French philosopher Condorcet in 1793 proposed creating a new, indirect form of self-rule, linking local assemblies to a national government.

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There are a few examples: the Condorcet data centre in Paris sends its waste heat directly into a neighbouring Climate Change Arboretum, where scientists study the impacts of high temperatures on vegetation.

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