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

Condillac, by rejecting this concession, carried to extremes and spoiled the doctrine of Locke, and made of it a narrow, exclusive, entirely false system,—sensualism, to speak properly.

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

Accordingly, in antiquity, we side with Plato against his adversaries; among the moderns, with Descartes against Locke, with Reid against Hume, with Kant against both Condillac and Smith.

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

Locke and Condillac did not leave a chapter, not even a single page, on the beautiful.

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

As the theory of Condillac states it, the sensible is not merely the empirical first, but is left as if it were the true and essential foundation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

This was Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, brother of the Abbé de Mably, who was born in 1715, and died in 1780.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George