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Reid and Common Sense Realism

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Duration: 0:52:20 | Added: 14 May 2014
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Duration: 0:52:20 | Added: 14 May 2014
Part two of Professor Dan Robinson's examination of Reid's critique of David Hume.

Is it the case that every simple idea is a “copy” of a simple impression? Hume is but the latest to deny that we have direct access to the external world. The “ideal” theory, relegating ideas to a mental realm whose occupants are but “copies” of some indefinite thing, is the sure path to skepticism and is at variance with the proper methods of science.

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