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PHILOSOPHER

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

1714 - 1780

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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (UK: ET-ee-EN BON-oh də KON-dee-ak, 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac has received more than 198,585 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Étienne Bonnot de Condillac is the 199th most popular philosopher (up from 203rd in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from France (up from 454th in 2019) and the 27th 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 199 out of 1,081Before him are Xun Kuang, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Marquis de Condorcet, Georgi Plekhanov, George Herbert Mead, and Paulo Freire. After him are Apollonius of Tyana, Gabriel Marcel, Diogenes of Apollonia, Al-Ash'ari, Rudolf Carnap, and Jean-François Lyotard.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 450 out of 6,011Before him are Carloman I (751), Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Charles Richet (1850), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Théodore Rousseau (1812), and Jean Lannes (1769). After him are André Derain (1880), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), André Maurois (1885), Hippolyte Taine (1828), William Wyler (1902), and Alexandre Cabanel (1823).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ranks 27Before him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743). After him are Gabriel Marcel (1889), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Guy Debord (1931), and François Fénelon (1651).