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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind' and 'The Emergence of Probability'

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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.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

18450	Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: There is a double death. One, known by all men, consists in the separation of the body with the soul; the other, characteristic of philosophers, results in the separation of the soul from the body.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 1Enn9 3)