French sensualist school
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The French sensualist school was an 18th-century philosophical movement that held all human knowledge derives from sensory experience, prominently developed by thinkers such as Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.
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| French sensualist school canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: French sensualist school Context triple: [Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, influenced, French sensualist school]
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Target entity: French sensualist school Target entity description: The French sensualist school was an 18th-century philosophical movement that held all human knowledge derives from sensory experience, prominently developed by thinkers such as Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.
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A.
Brittany school of painters
The Brittany school of painters was an artistic movement centered in the Brittany region of France, known for its Symbolist and Post-Impressionist depictions of rural life, rugged coastal landscapes, and Breton culture.
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B.
École de Paris
École de Paris refers to a diverse group of mostly foreign-born modern artists working in Paris in the early to mid-20th century, associated with avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Fauvism, and Expressionism.
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C.
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.
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D.
French classicism
French classicism is a 17th–18th century literary and artistic movement centered in France that emphasized order, clarity, rationality, and adherence to strict formal rules inspired by ancient Greek and Roman models.
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E.
French New Wave
The French New Wave was a groundbreaking 1950s–60s French film movement known for its innovative narrative techniques, low-budget aesthetics, and rejection of traditional studio conventions, which profoundly reshaped modern cinema.
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Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epistemological school
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philosophical movement ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
analysis of mental faculties into sensations
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psychological analysis ⓘ reduction of complex ideas to simple sensations ⓘ sensation as source of ideas ⓘ sensualism ⓘ |
| centralWork | Traité des sensations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralWorkAuthor | Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
all human knowledge derives from sensory experience
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mental operations are transformations of sensations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Enlightenment
NERFINISHED
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Early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| fieldOfInfluence |
aesthetics
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ethics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Claude Adrien Helvétius
NERFINISHED
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Denis Diderot NERFINISHED ⓘ Destutt de Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Julien Offray de La Mettrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis NERFINISHED ⓘ Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | French Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century French philosophy
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French materialism ⓘ educational theory in France ⓘ psychology in France ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
British empiricism
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Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ John Locke ⓘ empiricism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainRegion | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
innate ideas
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rationalist epistemology ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
epistemology
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philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
anti-innatism
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empiricism about ideas ⓘ |
| relatedSchool |
British empiricism
NERFINISHED
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associationism ⓘ |
| viewOnEducation | education should be based on sensory experience ⓘ |
| viewOnKnowledge | knowledge constructed from sensory impressions ⓘ |
| viewOnMind | mind as originally a passive recipient of sensations ⓘ |
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Subject: French sensualist school Description of subject: The French sensualist school was an 18th-century philosophical movement that held all human knowledge derives from sensory experience, prominently developed by thinkers such as Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.
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