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The works of Thomas Reid, D.D. Volume 2; now fully collected, with selections from his unpublished letters - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...same work he also says, 'Sense is equivalent to, or has the force of, science.' 1.--See also De Coelo L. i. c. 3, text 22. m.--Ibid, L. iii. c. 7, text 61. n Meteor., L. i. c. 13. 4.--TiiEornRASTUs.--a.--Metaph. c. 8, (ed. Sylb. p. 2G0, Brand, p. 319.) The following testimony of this philosopher (if the treatise be indeed his) is important both in itself, and as illustrative of the original peripatetic doctrine touching the cognition of first principles, which he clearly refuses to Sense and induction, and asserts to Intelligence and intuition. It has however been wholly overlooked; probably in consequence of being nearly unintelligible in the original from the corruption of the common text, and in the version of Bessarion--also from a misapprehension of his author's meaning, Having observed that it was difficult to determine up to what point and in regard to what things the investigation of causes or reasons is legitimate;'--that this difficulty applies to the objects both of Sense and of Intelligence, in reference to either of which a regress to infinity is at once a negation of them as objects of understanding and of philosophy;--that Sense and Intelligence, severally furnish a point of departure, a principle, the one relative, or to us, the other absolute, or in nature;--and that each is the converse of the other, the first in nature being the last to us;--he goes on to state what these counter processes severally avail in the research, or, as hecalls it, after Aristotle, the speculation, of principles. 'Up to a certain point, taking our departure from the Senses, we are able, rising from reason to reason, to carry on the speculation of priuciples; but when we arrive at those which are not merely comparatively prior but absolutely supreme and primary, w...
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Thomas Reid (1710 1796) was a Scottish philosopher. The founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, he played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1232272515
- ISBN 13 9781232272519
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages452
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