Gassendi


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Gassendi

(French ɡasɑ̃di)
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(Biography) Pierre. 1592–1655, French physicist and philosopher, who promoted an atomic theory of matter
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I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.
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No lunar feature commemorates Mellan, but Pierre Gassendi, the scientist who asked him to make the drawings, has a splendid crater.
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No se podria acusar a Marx de comenzar "haciendo metafisica" cuando "entre los padres fundadores de la ciencia moderna, Galileo, Descartes, Gassendi, Torricelli, encontramos mas bien la misma decision" (p.
Carlos Fernandez Liria y Luis Alegre Zahonero, El orden de El capital
Another was the French philosopher Pierre Gassendi, whose writings were especially prized by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson.
The Greeks and America's founding fathers, Part 1: The Greek Frame
In particular, look to the seventeenth-century philosophers Rene Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, and G.
Alan Perreiah. Renaissance Truths: Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language
In the work of Mersenne and Gassendi, in particular, the supernatural is defended against appropriation by naturalists precisely by the construction of a model of nature bare of internal purposiveness.
Aquinas, Kant, and the eclipse of practical reason
Gassendi argued that the idea of a perfect thing can be derived from the idea of an imperfect thing by "removing its imperfections.
Metaphysical poetry as an expression of religious experience and foundation of religious faith
Scholars of philosophy consider ideas in Lennon's 1993 The Battle of the Gods and the Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715, which explored debates over a new metaphysics to support the new mechanical view of nature.
The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux: Papers Presented to Thomas M. Lennon
El tercer apartado de la obra presenta algunas objeciones a las que tuvo que enfrentarse Descartes por parte de sus contemporaneos, destacando a Mersenne y Gassendi, y las respuestas por parte del propio Descartes.
Anuario filosofico. Cuadernos de anuario filosofico. Serie universitaria. No. 22 Rene Descartes, Dios: su existencia. Seleccion de textos, introduccion, traduccion y notas de Jose Luis Fernandez-Rodriguez (1995)
Father Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, produced a Christianized atomism that allowed for the spirit of God, and the human rational soul.
The metaphysics of modernism
Primero, al inicio del siglo XVII encontramos las ideas de Pierre Gassendi (1964) respecto de la mecanica natural.
The epistemological flow in science: from the mono-casual explanations to the multi-casual explanations/ El transito epistemologico en ciencia: de las explicaciones. unicausales a las explicaciones multicausales/O transito epistemologico em ciencia: das explicates. unicausais as explicates multicausais

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