| For the corpuscularian Locke, the particularity of perception meant that abstractions such as humanity, quantity, space, etc. |
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| In Chapter 2, Sheridan explains that Locke's adherence to the corpuscularian view of material body was a result of the influence of the scientific revolution. |
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| Newton, called for epistemic modesty about scientific hypotheses going beyond immediate experience, including the corpuscularian models of his friend Boyle. |
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| For example, the corpuscularian theory of matter that came to dominate seventeenth-century science certainly owes more to Gassendists than to the Cartesians. |
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