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

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

In setting forth his empirical sensationism, Condillac shows many of the best qualities of his age and nation, lucidity, brevity, moderation and an earnest striving after logical method.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

After Condillac the history of philosophy in France during the rest of the period is of no great interest to literature.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Begin, he says like Condillac, with the barest nucleus of soul-life; the mere sentiency, or feeling: the contact, as it were, with being, at a single point.

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

In the second section of the treatise Condillac invests his statue with the sense of touch, which first informs it of the existence of external objects.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various