Author: CONDILLAC (Étienne Bonnet de):
Title: La Logique, ou Les Premiers Développemens de l'Art de Penser; Ouvrage élémentaire, que le Conseil préposé aux Écoles Palatines avoit demandé, & qu'il a honoré de son approbation.
Description: A Paris, 1789. 12mo, pp. vi, 228, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks half-title, corners a little worn, but a very good copy. This work was first published in 1781 after Condillac's death in 1780. Despite its title, the work has several chapters on language, e. g., "Comment le langage d'action analyse la pensée." Aarsleff (From Locke to Saussure) notes, "In his final revisions in De l'art de penser he added a note to a chapter entitled 'De la nécessité des signs.' The note said: 'After the printing of my Essai, from which the largest part of this work is drawn, I have completed the demonstration of the necessity of signs, in my Grammar and in my Logic.'"

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