An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

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LibriVox recording of An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense by Thomas Reid. Read in English by Steven Reynolds; KHand "That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian truths, affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of the senses to produce the objective perception of things, and also of the non-empirical origin of the perception of space and time. Reid refutes Locke's doctrine that perception is a product of the senses, by a thorough and acute demonstration that the collective sensations of the senses do not bear the least resemblance to the world as known in perception, and especially that the five primary qualities of Locke (extension, form, solidity, movement, and number) absolutely could not be afforded us by any sensation of the senses. Accordingly he gives up the question as to the mode of origination and the source of perception as completely insoluble; and although altogether unacquainted with Kant, he gives us, as it were, according to the regula falsi , a thorough proof of the intellectual nature of perception (really first explained…

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Thomas Reid

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librivox; audiobooks;philosophy; epistemology; early modern philosophy; common sense; scottish common sense school

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