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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

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.