| Description |
1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
|
|
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul. 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. 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Early works to 1850.
|
|
Psychology. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1850 |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800.
|
|
Knowledge, Theory of. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1800 |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
|
|
Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Early works.
|
| Added Author |
Aarsleff, Hans.
|
| Added Title |
Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00105303
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 1714-1780. Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines. English. Essay on the origin of human knowledge. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521584671 (DLC) 00054721 (OCoLC)45667880 |
| ISBN |
0511016360 (electronic book) |
|
9780511016363 (electronic book) |
|
051115397X |
|
9780511153976 |
|
9781139164160 (electronic book) |
|
1139164163 (electronic book) |
|
9780511054143 |
|
0511054149 |
|
0521584671 (hardback) |
|
0521585767 (paperback) |
|
9780521584678 |
|
9780521585767 |
|
