Author Fisher, S. (Saul), author.

Title Pierre Gassendi's philosophy and science : atomism for empiricists / by Saul Fisher.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
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 Monograph Collection  B1887 .F57 2005  AVAILABLE
Description xxviii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 131. 0920-8607
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and index.
Contents A constructive skepticist theory of empirical knowledge -- Scientific method : the Regressus demonstrativus and hypothetical reasoning -- The atomist hypothesis -- Atomisn as hypothesis and as empirical knowledge.
Local Note Gift of Larry Principe, August 2024.
Subject(s) Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
Atomism.
Empiricism.