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enlightenment thinker

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philosophy

philosophy of mind

psychology

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seat 31 of the Académie française

psychologist

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Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

Académie Française

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Catholicism

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 was originally formed as abstract signs for feelings that gradually developed as an expedient between two individuals who observed each others want sor fear of various objects.

In Condillac's version of the primal dialogue, two children, 'after repeated observation of each other, began to recognise that certain spontaneous cries and movements signified their want or fear of various familiar objects'. They then inventedarbitrary, voluntarily presented, signs for these feelings and, 'as their dialogues become increasingly elaborate, the two children also developed their powers of thinking

is to be discovered in the abstract signs that formed in language for feelings that gradually developed as an expedient between two individuals who observed each other's wants or fear of various objects.

Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

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