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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Basses-Alpes Priest, Provençal Scientist, and Parisian Philosopher -- Chapter One: The Skeptical Challenge, an Empiricist Response, and a Physicalist Theory of Perceptual Belief -- Chapter Two: The Theory of Signs: Cautious License for Truth-Like Empirical Belief -- Chapter Three: Empiricist Epistemic Warrant, and Probabilist and Anti-Essentialist Consequences -- Chapter Four: Methodological Pursuits: The Regressus Recast, Induction, and Probability -- Chapter Five: The Institutio Method in Practice: Gassendi's Report of the Pascalian Experiment -- Chapter Six: A Method of Hypotheses and Hypothetical Reasoning -- Chapter Seven: Smallest Particles: From Ancient Atomist and Minima Theories to Minima Naturae and Physical Corpuscularianism -- Chapter Eight: The Mechanical Philosophy -- Chapter Nine: Ultimate Particles and Essential Features -- Chapter Ten: Atomic Motion, Causal Role, and Internal Impetus -- Chapter Eleven: Explanatory Uses of the Atomist Hypothesis -- Chapter Twelve: Atomism, the Mechanical Philosophy, and Empirical Viability -- Chapter Thirteen: Atomism and Scientific Method -- Chapter Fourteen: Is There a Circle in Gassendi's Reasoning? -- Bibliography -- General Index.