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Tables of Contents for Condillac
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
viii
List of abbreviations
ix
Introduction
xi
Chronology
xxxix
Further reading
xli
Note on the text and translation
xliv
Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
1
2
Introduction
3
6
PART I The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soul
9
10
Section 1
The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body
11
4
Sensations
15
4
Section 2 Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul
19
52
Perception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence
19
8
Imagination, contemplation, and memory
27
5
How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory
32
4
The use of signs is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory
36
5
Reflection
41
3
Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas
44
2
Digression on the origin of principles and the operation that consists in analysis
46
5
Affirming. Denying. Judging. Reasoning. Conceiving. The understanding
51
3
Defects and advantages of the imagination
54
7
The source of the charms that imagination gives to truth
61
2
On reason and on intellect and its different aspects
63
8
Section 3 Simple and complex ideas
71
21
Section 4
The operation by which we give signs to our ideas
78
6
Facts that confirm what was proved in the previous chapter
84
8
Section 5 Abstractions
92
9
Section 6 Some judgments that have been erroneously attributed to the mind, or the solution of a metaphysical problem
101
10
PART II Language and method
111
2
Section 1 The origin and progress of language
113
83
The language of action and that of articulated sounds considered from their point of origin
114
6
The prosody of the first languages
120
3
The prosody of the Greek and Latin languages and, en passant, the declamation of the ancients
123
9
Progress of the art of gesture among the ancients
132
6
Music
138
8
Musical and plain declamation compared
146
2
Which is the most perfect prosody?
148
2
The origin of poetry
150
6
Words
156
11
The same subject continued
167
2
The signification of words
169
4
Inversions
173
5
Writing
178
4
Origin of the fable, the parable, and the enigma, with some details about the use of figures and metaphors
182
3
The genius of languages
185
11
Section 2 Method
196
25
The first cause of our errors and the origin of truth
196
4
The manner of determining ideas or their names
200
8
The order we ought to follow in the search for truth
208
9
The order to be followed in the exposition of truth
217
4
Index
221