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Our ideas are transformed sensations.

— Étienne 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.

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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.

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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