id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1883 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac - Wikipedia .html text/html 4004 464 66 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (/ˈɛtiˌɛn ˈbɒnoʊ də ˈkɒndiˌæk/; French: [etjɛn bɔno də kɔ̃dijak]; 30 September 1714 – 2 August[3] or 3 August[4][5] 1780) was a French philosopher and epistemologist, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind. In Paris, Condillac was involved with the circle of Denis Diderot, the philosopher who was co-contributor to the Encyclopédie. By advocating of a free market economy in contrast to the prevailing contemporary policy of state control in France, Condillac influenced classical liberal economics[10] A modern historian has compared[12] Condillac with Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and pre-evolutionary thinker Lord Monboddo, who had a similar fascination with abstraction and ideas. In France Condillac's doctrine, so congenial to the tone of 18th century philosophism, reigned in the schools for over fifty years, challenged only by a few who, like Maine de Biran, saw that it gave no sufficient account of volitional experience. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1883.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1883.txt