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1. Reid, Thomas Reidnoun

   Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)

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1. Thomas Reid

   Thomas Reid (; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A contemporary of David Hume, Reid was also "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic".

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   Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a Scottish philosopher and one of the key figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. He's particularly known for his work on moral theory and his comprehensive philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. He was a founder and the leading member of the "Common Sense" philosophy which argued against skepticism, maintaining that common sense beliefs are foundational to our knowledge. Reid's work has significantly influenced philosophy fields such as philosophy of perception and philosophy of action.

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1. Thomas Reid

   The Reverend Thomas Reid FRSE, a religiously trained Scottish philosopher and a contemporary of David Hume, was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he created the 'Wise Club' and graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen in 1752, where he wrote An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense. Shortly afterward he was given the prestigious Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow when he was called to replace Adam Smith. He resigned from this position in 1781. Reid believed that common sense is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world.

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