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  • ( "Condillac" was the name of an estate purchased by his father in

    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Falkenstein, Lorne 2007

  • "If I had those men -- which I have not -- what, think you, could they do against a fortress such as Condillac?

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The book is a thrilling and challenging ride, and in the end you may find yourself agreeing with Frenchman Étienne de Condillac that "each language expresses the character of the people who speak it."

    Three books on language Post 2010

  • Vico's thought was likely known to Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and some have seen his influence in the writings of Denis Diderot, Etienne Bonnot, abbé de Condillac, and Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre.

    Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

  • Yet, as a moral rigorist, he had to contend with the skepticism and conventionalism voiced by Locke and David Hume and the attacks on metaphysics of Etienne de Condillac, Leonhard Euler,

    Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008

  • Essay, Condillac supposed that the imagination is initially outside of our control.

    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Falkenstein, Lorne 2007

  • The "sensationist" label notwithstanding, there is some suggestion that Condillac may have taken both memory and volition to be primitive functions of the soul that are not in fact reducible to sensation.

    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Falkenstein, Lorne 2007

  • On the stronger understanding, Condillac meant to say that sensation produces all of the other capacities of the soul.

    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Falkenstein, Lorne 2007

  • Descartes, Locke, Kant, Condillac, and Goethe, and he cites Foucault on the camera obscura as "a form of representation which made knowledge in general possible":

    Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

  • A being (Condillac's "statue") endowed with just this one sense but no motive power would, Condillac supposed, be capable of receiving pleasure or pain from the experience of different odoriferous objects.

    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Falkenstein, Lorne 2007

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