Resumen de Interrelationships of language and thought in the French enlightenment
This study explores the theories of growth and development of language and thought espoused by the noted eighteenth‐century philosophes Rousseau, Voltaire, Condorcet, Condillac, Helvétius, and Diderot. Acknowledging the powerful role of language in generating new thought, these Enlightenment thinkers criticized both the inherent and man‐made shortcomings of language and proposed reforms to remedy the existing defects.
