Essay on the origin of human knowledge / Etienne Bonnot de Condillac ; translated and edited by Hans Aarsleff.

This work, first published in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, is a highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language, and anticipates Wittgenstein's views on language and its relation to mind and thought.

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Main Author: Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 1714-1780
Other Authors: Aarsleff, Hans
Other title:Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines. English
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Cartesian dualism and language -- Condillac and Locke -- The title of Origin -- Rhetorical expressivism -- Condillac and signs -- Did Condillac give too much to signs? -- Inversions or the problem of word order -- Condillac's sources -- Wittgenstein -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text and translation -- Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge -- Introduction 
505 8 |a Part I The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soulSection 1 -- 1 The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body -- 2 Sensations -- Section 2 Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul -- 1 Preception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence -- 2 Imagination, contemplation, and memory -- 3 How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory -- 4 The use of sings is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory -- 5 Reflection 
505 8 |a 6 Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas7 Digression on the origin of principles and of the operation that consists in analysis -- 8 Affirming. Denying. Judging. Reasoning. Conceiving. The understanding -- 9 Defects and advantages of the imagination -- 10 The source of the charms that imagination gives to truth -- 11 On reason and on intellect and its different aspects -- Section 3 Simple and complex ideas -- Section 4 -- 1 The operation by which we give signs to our ideas 
505 8 |a 2 Facts that confirm what was proved in the previous chapterSection 5 Abstractions -- Section 6 Some judgments that have been erroneously attributed to the mind, or the solution of a metaphysical problem -- Part II Language and method -- Section 1 The origin and progress of language -- 1 The language of action and that of articulated sounds considered from their point of origin -- 2 The prosody of the first languages -- 3 The prosody of the Greek and Latin languages and, en passant, the declamation of the ancients -- 4 Progress of the art of gesture among the ancients 
505 8 |a 5 Music6 Musical and plain declamation compared -- 7 Which is the most perfect prosody? -- 8 The origin of poetry -- 9 Words -- 10 The same subject continued -- 11 The signification of words -- 12 Inversions -- 13 Writing -- 14 Origin of the fable, the parable, and the enigma, with some details about the use of figures and metaphors -- 15 The genius of languages -- Section 2 Method -- 1 The first cause of our errors and the origin of truth -- 2 The manner of determining ideas or their names -- 3 The order we ought to follow in the search for truth 
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