Condorcet, Marquis de. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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Condorcet, Marquis de

SYLLABICATION:	Con·dor·cet
PRONUNCIATION:	kôn-dôr-s
DATES:	1743–1794
VARIANTS:	Title of Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat.
	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).


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