Essai sur l’origine des connaissances humaines

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Essai sur l’origine des connaissances humaines is an 18th-century philosophical treatise by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac that develops an empiricist theory of how human knowledge arises from sensory experience.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction work
philosophical treatise
argues all human knowledge originates in the senses
complex ideas are formed from simple sensations
operations of the mind transform sensations into knowledge
author Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes innate ideas
rationalist accounts of knowledge
discusses analysis of mental operations
formation of language from sensory experience
relationship between sensation and reflection
focusesOn development of ideas from sensations
role of sensation in knowledge
genre Enlightenment philosophy
hasAuthorNationality French
hasForm prose
hasKeyConcept analysis of the faculties of the mind
sensation as source of ideas
transformation of sensations into judgments
hasPhilosophicalPosition psychological empiricism
sensationalism
hasStructure systematic exposition of an empiricist theory of knowledge
historicalPeriod Enlightenment NERFINISHED
influenced French Enlightenment philosophy
later empiricist epistemology
influencedBy Essay Concerning Human Understanding NERFINISHED
John Locke
mainTopic epistemology
origin of human knowledge
philosophy of mind
sensory experience
movementContext French Enlightenment NERFINISHED
originalLanguage French
philosophicalDiscipline philosophy of psychology
theory of knowledge
philosophicalMovement empiricism
publicationCentury 18th century
publicationYear 1746
titleLanguage French

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