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1714–1780 France
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (30 September 1714 – 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher.
France Academics Economists Logicians Philosophers Also known as: Condillac, Condillac, Ettiene Bonnot de, Etienne Bonnet de Condillac, Etienne Bonnot Condillac, Etienne Bonnot De Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.
Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy (1997)
The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
We shall not … begin this logic by definitions, axioms, or principles; we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us.
Our ideas are transformed sensations.
We think only through the medium of words.—Languages are true analytical methods.—Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method.—The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
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