UID:
almafu_9959239667302883
Format:
1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-05414-9
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1-139-16416-3
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0-511-15397-X
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0-511-01636-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Uniform Title:
Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines.
Content:
Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. He argued, further, that language has its origin in human interaction and in our natural capacity to react spontaneously and instinctively to the expression of emotions and states of mind in others. The importance of this pointedly anti-Cartesian view, and its relevance to both aesthetics and epistemology, were quickly understood, and Condillac's work influenced many later philosophers including Herder, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. His conception also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language, its usage, and its relation to mind and thought.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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""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""
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""Part I The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul""""Section 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""
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""6 Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas""""7 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""
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""2 Facts that confirm what was proved in the previous chapter""""Section 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""
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""5 Music""""6 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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""4 The order to be followed in the exposition of truth""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-58576-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-58467-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164160
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