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Essay on the origin of human knowledge /

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.

Основен автор: Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 1714-1780.
Други автори: Aarsleff, Hans.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
French
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Серия: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Essay on the origin of human knowledge.
Съдържание:
  • pt. I.
  • The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul.
  • The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body.
  • Sensations.
  • Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul.
  • Perception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence.
  • Imagination, contemplation, and memory.
  • How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory.
  • The use of signs is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory.
  • Reflection.
  • Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas.
  • Digression on the origin of principles and the operation that consists in analysis.