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1 online resource (187 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge; Introduction; Part I: The Ingredients of Our Knowledge and Particularly the Operations of the Mind; Section I; 1. The Ingredients of Our Knowledge and the Distinction Between the Mind and the Body; 2. Sensations; Section II The Analysis and Origins of Mental Operations; 1. Perception, Consciousness, Attention, and Reminiscence; 2. Imagination, Contemplation, and Memory; 3. How the Connection of Ideas Formed by Attention Produces Imagination, Contemplation, and Memory |
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4. The Use of Signs is the True Cause of the Development of Imagination, Contemplation, and Memory5. Reflection; 6. Operations That Consist of Distinguishing, Abstracting, Comparing, Compounding, and Decomposing Our Ideas; 7. A Digression on the Origin of Principles, and of the Operation of Analysis; 8. Affirming, Denying, Judging, Reasoning, Conceiving: The Understanding; 9. The Advantages and Defects of the Imagination; 10. Where the Imagination Gets the Embellishments It Gives to Truth; 11. Reason, Intellect, and Its Different Kinds; Section III Simple and Complex Ideas; Section IV |
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1. The Operation of Giving Signs to Our Ideas2. Facts Confirming What was Proven in the Previous Chapter; Section V Abstractions; Section VI Some Unfounded Judgments Attributed to the Mind or the Solution of a Metaphysical Problem; Part II: Language and Method; Section I The Origin and Development of Language; 1. The Origin of the Language of Action and of Articulate Sounds; 9. Words; Section II Method; 1. Method: The First Cause of Our Errors and the Origin of Truth; 2. The Manner of Determining Ideas or Their Names; 3. The Order to Follow in the Search for Truth |
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4. The Order to Follow in the Exposition of TruthCourse of Study for the Instruction of the Prince of Parma; Introduction to the Course of Study; Index |
| Summary |
The Essays lay the foundation for Condillac's theory of mind. He argues that all mental operations are, in fact, sensory processes and nothing more. An outgrowth of Locke's empirical account of ideas and sensations as a source of knowledge, Condillac's theory goes beyond Locke's foundations, introducing his universal method for understanding any complex entity: the reduction of all ma |
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Print version record |
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Thought and thinking -- Early works to 1800
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Senses and sensation -- Early works to 1800
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Senses and sensation
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Thought and thinking
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Early works
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317767909 |
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131776790X |
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