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Collapse MS 2131 - Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy papers (The Birkwood Collection)

MS 2131 - Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy papers (The Birkwood Collection)

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1 - 'Ever since the treatise of human nature was published I respected Mr Hume as the greatest Metaphysician of the age...’

2 - 'I. Let us then first consider the Reasons which have led Philosophers to think in this Matter...that Ideas...are necessary to the Perception of external objects...’

3 - 'Of secondary Qualities.'

4 - 'There is a certain order in which the faculties of the human mind unfold themselves.'

5 - 'Of memory.'

6 - 'Of the Faculty of Imagination.'

7 - 'Of common sense. Cura prima.'

8 - 'In a former discourse I inquired into the meaning of the word Common Sense.'

9 - ‘In a former discourse I explained what I understood by principles of Common sense or first Principles...’

10 - 'Common sense.'

11 - 'I proceed now to point out some of the first Principles of Necessary Truths.'

12 - 'In a former discourse I considered Imagination as it signifies that power or Faculty by which we barely conceive things without any Belief of their Existence.'

13 - 'Nor do I think that any considerable objection against the Conclusions I have advanced can be drawn from the Hypothesis of Boscowitsch...'

14 - 'There are undoubtedly some propositions whose truth we discern immediately without Reasoning...'

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