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De L'intelligence by Hippolyte Taine is a foundational work of 19th-century psychology and epistemology. In its opening, Taine lays out the project: to study knowledge by analyzing the signs that stand between sensation and thought. In Book I, The Signs, Taine argues that all knowledge begins as signs—experiences that present themselves and suggest possible further experiences. Signs include proper names and general terms, each acting as substitutes for experiences beyond direct grasp. He shows how general ideas are built by successive substitutions, while numbers and geometric concepts are read as chains of substitutive signs. The subsequent section on Images, Taine shows that perceptions are often shadows of sensations, whose vividness can become hallucinatory in dreams, hypnosis, or disease; memory and imagination, however, produce durable, living images which can replace immediate sensation. The book argues that illusions and their rectifications generate our knowledge, that perception is a form of controlled hallucination, and that signs—words, symbols, and rules—serve to stabilize and extend experience. Taine thus outlines a theory of knowledge that unifies physiology, psychology, and logic.
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