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Reid, Thomas (1710–1796)

Scottish mathematician and philosopher. His Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense 1764 attempted to counter the sceptical conclusions of Scottish philosopher David Hume. He believed that the existence of the material world and the human soul is self-evident ‘by the consent of ages and nations, of the learned and unlearned’.



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