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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

1714 - 1780

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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ( KON-ih-yak; French: [etjɛn bɔno də kɔ̃dijak]; 30 September 1714 – 2 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher, epistemologist, and Catholic priest, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac is the 202nd most popular philosopher (up from 203rd in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from France (up from 490th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Philosopher.

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac is most famous for his "Treatise on the Sensations" in which he argues that all knowledge comes from our senses.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 202 out of 1,267. Before him are John Rawls, Max Horkheimer, Christian Wolff, Diotima of Mantinea, Slavoj Žižek, and Karl Kautsky. After him are Diogenes of Apollonia, Jean-François Lyotard, Rudolf Carnap, Hasan al-Basri, Alcmaeon of Croton, and Moses Mendelssohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 4. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. After him are Joseph I of Portugal, Pontiac, Claude Joseph Vernet, Alaungpaya, Niccolò Jommelli, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, and Emer de Vattel. Among people deceased in 1780, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 2. Before him is Maria Theresa. After him are Bernardo Bellotto, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Hiraga Gennai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 467 out of 6,770. Before him are Auguste Escoffier (1847), Livilla (-13), Jean Monnet (1888), Alexis Carrel (1873), Paul Éluard (1895), and Jean Fouquet (1420). After him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Louis III of France (863), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Lazare Carnot (1753), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 26. Before him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638). After him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Gabriel Marcel (1889), and Roger Garaudy (1913).

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