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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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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This review is from: An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge.: Being A Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Translated From the French of the Abbè de Condillac. (Paperback)
If what you are looking at does not show the green Cambridge Aarsleff edition on the cover, then that's not what it is, despite what the "look inside" feature shows. Rather, it's a 1756 facsimile. To find the Aarsleff edition, I had to search under the ISBN, which is 9780521585767.
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Whether we raise ourselves, to speak metaphorically, into the heavens or descend into the abyss, we do not go beyond ourselves; and we never perceive anything but our own thought. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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instituted signs, greatest connection, accidental signs, accessory ideas, natural cries New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Port-royal Logic by Antoine Arnauld in Front Matter, and page 165
- Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Francis Bacon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Treatise on the Sensations (Source Texts of the Enlightenment) by Etienne Bonnot De Condillac in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- A Discourse on the Method (Oxford World's Classics) by Renï¿1/2 Descartes in Front Matter, and page 215
- Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume in Front Matter, and page 21
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- Encounters with the Other: A Journey to the Limits of Language through Works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prévoust and Graffigny (Faux Titre 234) by Martin Calder on 10 pages
- Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo (Rhetorical Philosopy and Theory) by Associate Professor Catherine L Hobbs PhD on 7 pages
- Origins And The Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology From Descartes To Kant by Catherine Labio on 6 pages
- British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Alan Richardson on 4 pages
- The Word Made Self: Russian Writings on Language, 1860-1930 by Thomas Seifrid on page 13, page 18, and Back Matter
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