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Having rejected as invalid those systems which presume to explain nature by means of a few abstract principles, and having established that those which are founded on suppositions can be, in certain circumstances, valid and useful, Condillac devotes the final section of the Traité des systèmes to a discussion of the third type of system, according to his classification — those systems based on principles verified by experience.
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McNiven Hine, E. (1979). The Third Type of System. In: A Critical Study of Condillac’s Traité des Systèmes. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9291-7_6
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