mar 8, 1658 - Syntagma philosophicum
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Pierre Gassendi's poshomunous work in which he tones down his earlier pyrhonism and puts forward a modern attitude of constructive skepticism and probable knowledge.
Discusses Bacon
A critique of Descartes
When Gassendi was confronted with a dogmatic theory, a metaphysical picture of the structure of the universe and our knowledge of it, then the Pyrrhonian basis of his thought came out clearly and sharply, not as a disguised equivalent of scepticism, as it did in Mersenne, but as a blunt avowal of complete epistemological Pyrrhonism. Thus, when considering the views of Aristotle, Herbert of Cherbury, Descartes, *or even the mathematical physicists, whom he took to be Platonists or Pythagoreans*, Gassendi advocated total scepticism about the world beyond appearance.
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