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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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