An Inquiry Into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Thomas Reid

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9780266755036: An Inquiry Into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266755038 ISBN 13: 9780266755036

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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense

All our curious theories of the formation of the earth, of the generation of animals, of the origin of natural and moral evil, fo far as they go beyond a jufi indu�tion from facts, are vanity and folly, no lefa than the vortices of des cartes, or the Archaeus of paracelsus. Perhaps the philofophy of the mind hath been no lefs adulterated by theories, than that of the material fyi'tem. The theory of ideas is indeed very ancient, and hath been very univerfally received; but as neither of thefe titles can give it authenticity, they ought not to fcreen it from a free and candid exa mination; efpecially in this age, when it hath produced a fyflem of fcepticifm, that feems to triumph over all fcience, and even over the difiates of common fenfe.

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