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Condorcet

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Con·dor·cet  (kôn-dôr-s), Marquis de. Title of Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat. 1743-1794.
French mathematician and philosopher known for his work on the mathematical theory of probability and for his philosophical study Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795).
Condorcet (French) [kɔndɔrsɛ]
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(Biographies / Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794) M, French, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, POLITICS: politician) Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de. 1743-94, French philosopher and politician. His works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
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Noun1.Condorcet - French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet


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It was a goal connected to a tradition, to what Diderot, Voltaire, Condorcet, and others sought: to free the person and to assert the reality of eternal progress.
Sartre and Camus: the yoke of enlightenment by Horowitz, Irving Louis / Modern Age
55) The social progressivism of Holbach and Condorcet is merely a secularised version of the old theological philosophy of history.
Unspeakable utopia: art and the return to the theological in the ... by Hughes, John / Cross Currents
John Adams excerpted it in his Defense of the Constitutions of the United States of America in the 1780s, and the Marquis de Condorcet cited the work in his influential discussion of the progress of the human mind.
An inky wretch: The outrageous Genius of Marchamont Nedham by Rahe, Paul A. / The National Interest
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