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Thomas Reid

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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid as pentit bi Henry Raeburn in 1796
Born26 Apryle 1710(1710-04-26)
Strachan, Scotland
Dee'd7 October 1796(1796-10-07) (aged 86)
Glesga, Scotland
Alma materUniversity o Aiberdeen
Era18t-century filosofie
RegionWastren Filosofie
SchuilScots Common Sense Realism[1]
Scottish Enlightenment
Main interests
Metapheesics, epistemology, filosofie o Mynd, ethics
Notable ideas
Direct realism, epistemological freemitism

Thomas Reid FRSE (/riːd/; 26 Apryle 1710 – 7 October 1796) wis a releegiously trained Scots filosofer, a contemporary o David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest an fiercest creetic".[2]

References

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  1. ↑ Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense, ed. by G. A. Johnston (1915), essays by Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, and Dugald Stewart (online version).
  2. ↑ See Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, Christian Philosophy page 138 (Baker Academic, 2013).