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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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4 - Manuscripts (lecture notes)
5 - Manuscripts (mathematics)
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