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Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot De
de Condillac, Etienne Bonnot
Clarke, Desmond M.

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Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0521585767
ISBN13: 9780521585767
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 24 2001
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. His work influenced many later philosophers, and also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language and its relation to mind and thought.

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