Thomas Reid FRSE (/rd/; 26 Apryle 1710 – 7 October 1796) wis a releegiously trained Scots filosofer, a contemporary o David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest an fiercest creetic".[2]

Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid as pentit bi Henry Raeburn in 1796
Born26 Apryle 1710(1710-04-26)
Strachan, Scotland
Dee'd7 October 1796(1796-10-07) (aged 86)
Glesga, Scotland
Alma materUniversity o Aiberdeen
Era18t-century filosofie
RegionWastren Filosofie
SchuilScots Common Sense Realism[1]
Scottish Enlightenment
Main interests
Metapheesics, epistemology, filosofie o Mynd, ethics
Notable ideas
Direct realism, epistemological freemitism

References

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  1. Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense, ed. by G. A. Johnston (1915), essays by Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, and Dugald Stewart (online version).
  2. See Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, Christian Philosophy page 138 (Baker Academic, 2013).