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
Figures like Diderot and Hume derived some of their ideas on liberty from classical texts, where they found declarations of political and personal freedoms.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2021
By the middle of the eighteenth century, French scholars Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert felt ready to catalogue all human knowledge in their comprehensive, 30-volume Encyclopédie.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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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