Ideas from 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 2: Senses' by Thomas Reid [1785], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Inquiry and Essays' by Reid,Thomas (ed/tr Beanblossom /K.Lehrer) [Hackett 1983,0-915145-85-5]].

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

23634

Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

23635

Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

7631	Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

23637

Primary qualities are the object of mathematics

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

23638

Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

23639

It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense

6492	Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Robinson,H]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence

23641

People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

23642

If non-rational evidence reaches us, it is reason which then makes use of it

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

23640

Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body