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Essay on the origin of human knowledge
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Essay on the origin of human knowledge

Author: Etienne Bonnot de Condillac; Hans Aarsleff
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language.

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Genre/Form: Early works to 1850
Early works to 1800
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Etienne Bonnot de Condillac; Hans Aarsleff
ISBN: 0521584671 9780521584678 0521585767 9780521585767
OCLC Number: 45667880
Description: xlv, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul. The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body. Sensations. Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul. Perception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence. Imagination, contemplation, and memory. How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory. The use of signs is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory. Reflection. Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas. Digression on the origin of principles and the operation that consists in analysis.
Series Title: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
Other Titles: Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines.
Responsibility: Etienne Bonnot de Condillac ; translated and edited by Hans Aarsleff.
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