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Reid was a theist. He therefore had to make his philosophy conform to Judeo-Christian beliefs. Also, he misunderstood Berkeley. Reid could not mentally grasp that the way an object appears depends on the observer's brain.
Schopenhauer praised Reid because Reid realized that raw sensations do not, by themselves, represent objects. Sensations are mere feelings. Another mental process, which Schopenhauer called "understanding," represents objects to the mind by applying the forms of space, time, and causality to data provided by sensations.
I try to expand on Reid's notion of common sense and Ryan Delaney deletes my posting. Is it informative to merely say that Reid was a common sense philosopher? Isn't it more educational to explain how he thought that human knowledge can be anlyzed through common sense? Are we writing for third graders?
64.12.117.12 12:32, 11 September 2005 (UTC)Bruce Partington
You are correct. I, personally, judged that Reid misunderstood Berkeley. That is my opinion. In the future I will be sensitive to such subjective points of view. 152.163.101.12 02:01, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Bruce Partington
The David Hume article states that
"Hume failed to gain chairs of philosophy in Edinburgh and in Glasgow, probably due to charges of atheism, and to the opposition of one of his chief critics, Thomas Reid."
whereas this states that
"He [Reid] had a great admiration for Hume, and asked him to correct the first manuscript of his (Reid's) Inquiry."
If Reid had so profound a change of heart regarding Hume that seems it should me mentioned in the articles, if not this contradiction should be resolved and the appropriate article corrected.
Hume responded that the "deeply philosophical" work "is wrote in a lively and entertaining matter,"
This article clearly needs to have a lot of work done to it. I have begun to work on expanding on the biographical information of Reid (life, education, career, etc...). While it is still pretty rough, if anyone wishes to see what I have so far and comment on things to be added or changed you can go check out on my user page in my sandbox. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks. Diehl1am ( talk) 04:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be a secular presentism on Wikipedia and I don't like it. Mind you, not out of any religious sentiment (which I am without), but the Wikipedia reader/user/patron will be left with a distorted view of history. My present edits give a more historically accurate picture of Thomas Reid. Ingram ( talk) 08:07, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The article quotes Reid (@ Exploring sense and language, final para) as writing " The great Lord Verulam had a perfect comprehension of this when we called it an interpretation of nature." "When he called it .. " seems much more likely. Can anyone with access to the cited source check? - SquisherDa ( talk) 00:16, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
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Reid was a theist. He therefore had to make his philosophy conform to Judeo-Christian beliefs. Also, he misunderstood Berkeley. Reid could not mentally grasp that the way an object appears depends on the observer's brain.
Schopenhauer praised Reid because Reid realized that raw sensations do not, by themselves, represent objects. Sensations are mere feelings. Another mental process, which Schopenhauer called "understanding," represents objects to the mind by applying the forms of space, time, and causality to data provided by sensations.
I try to expand on Reid's notion of common sense and Ryan Delaney deletes my posting. Is it informative to merely say that Reid was a common sense philosopher? Isn't it more educational to explain how he thought that human knowledge can be anlyzed through common sense? Are we writing for third graders?
64.12.117.12 12:32, 11 September 2005 (UTC)Bruce Partington
You are correct. I, personally, judged that Reid misunderstood Berkeley. That is my opinion. In the future I will be sensitive to such subjective points of view. 152.163.101.12 02:01, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Bruce Partington
The David Hume article states that
"Hume failed to gain chairs of philosophy in Edinburgh and in Glasgow, probably due to charges of atheism, and to the opposition of one of his chief critics, Thomas Reid."
whereas this states that
"He [Reid] had a great admiration for Hume, and asked him to correct the first manuscript of his (Reid's) Inquiry."
If Reid had so profound a change of heart regarding Hume that seems it should me mentioned in the articles, if not this contradiction should be resolved and the appropriate article corrected.
Hume responded that the "deeply philosophical" work "is wrote in a lively and entertaining matter,"
This article clearly needs to have a lot of work done to it. I have begun to work on expanding on the biographical information of Reid (life, education, career, etc...). While it is still pretty rough, if anyone wishes to see what I have so far and comment on things to be added or changed you can go check out on my user page in my sandbox. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks. Diehl1am ( talk) 04:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be a secular presentism on Wikipedia and I don't like it. Mind you, not out of any religious sentiment (which I am without), but the Wikipedia reader/user/patron will be left with a distorted view of history. My present edits give a more historically accurate picture of Thomas Reid. Ingram ( talk) 08:07, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The article quotes Reid (@ Exploring sense and language, final para) as writing " The great Lord Verulam had a perfect comprehension of this when we called it an interpretation of nature." "When he called it .. " seems much more likely. Can anyone with access to the cited source check? - SquisherDa ( talk) 00:16, 15 February 2020 (UTC)