"It is an even worse mistake to have confused the tests of truth with
the content of truth... [t]his was the blunder of Pierre Gassendi, who
revived the study of Epicurus in the seventeenth century. It was his
finding "that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in
the senses." From this position John Locke, in turn, set out as the
founder of modern empiricism. Thus a misunderstanding of Epicurus underlies a main trend of modern philosophy."
Norman Wentworth Dewitt (NWD), Epicurus and his Philosophy
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