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7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
Full Idea: Gassendi is the first in the great line of empiricist philosophers that gradually came to dominate European thought. | |
From: Ian Hacking (The Emergence of Probability [1975], Ch.5) | |
A reaction: Epicurus, of course, was clearly an empiricist. British readers should note that Gassendi was not British. |