Étienne Bonnot Condillac

Étienne Bonnot Condillac (1715-1780) was a French philosopher, born at Grenoble, of good birth. He commenced as a disciple of Locke, but went further, for whereas Locke was content to deduce empirical knowledge from sensation and reflection, he deduced reflection from sensation, and laid the foundation of a sensationalism which, in the hands of his successors, went further still, and swamped the internal in the external, and which is now approaching the stage of self-cancelling zero. He lived as a recluse, and had Rousseau and Diderot for intimate friends.

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