This author of (*) Treatise on Systems used the example of a statue with internal functions like a human, but without faculties, to demonstrate that every piece of information about the real external world could be gained via the senses.
This thinker distinguished phases of "progress" and "decline" in human history based on resource waste with his free-market theory that the "true price" would naturally push humans towards the former. Like Thomas Reid, this philosopher distinguished "accidental," "natural," and "instituted" signs, but unlike Reid, he did not believe humans had innate knowledge of these signs. This thinker proposed that the first human tongue was a "language of action" that consisted simply of imitated natural sounds and gestures. This author of (*) Treatise on Systems used the example of a statue with internal functions like a human, but without faculties, to demonstrate that every piece of information about the real external world could be gained via the senses. For 10 points, name this disciple of John Locke, an 18th-century French "sensationalist."
This thinker distinguished phases of "progress" and "decline" in human history based on resource waste with his free-market theory that the "true price" would naturally push humans towards the former.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac