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 works upon chimeras reduced to signs, with which he sports at his ease.

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

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

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

So that, a definition of a name being thus generally the sum total of the essential propositions which could be framed with that name for subject, is really, as Condillac says, an analysis.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)

Though it never ceased to influence individual thinkers, it had handed on to Condillac its popularity with the masses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various