biography
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Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de
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pronunciation:
[kõdeeyak]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1715–80)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and psychologist, born in Grenoble, E France. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1740, and was a tutor to the Duke of Parma, and Abbé de Mureaux. He was a great enthusiast of the English philosopher John Locke and was a collaborator on the Encyclopédie. In his Traité des sensations (1754) he advanced the radical argument that all knowledge is derived ultimately from the conversion of sensations. He taught Louis XV's grandson and also wrote on language and economics. His other important work is Essai sur l'origines des connaissances humaines (1746, Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge). |
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