Condillac, Etienne
Condillac, Etienne
(l715-1780) French sensationalist. Successor of Locke. In his Traite des sensations, he works out the details of a system based on Lockean foundations in which all the human faculties are reduced in essence to a sensory basis. Understanding in all its phases, is deemed nothing more than the comparison or multiplication of sensations. He is important today for his having followed the lead of Locke in pointing the way to psychology to profit by observation and experience. — L.E.D.
E. Condillac, Traite des systemes, 1846; Traite des sensations, 1854; Langue des calculs, 1858.