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Ideas of Thomas Reid, by Text
[British, 1710 - 1796, Born at Aberdeen. Professor at the University of Glasgow.]
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6.24
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p.18
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We treat testimony with a natural trade off of belief and caution [Fricker,M]
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1785
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Essays on Intellectual Powers: Abstraction
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p.157
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11874
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Real identity admits of no degrees
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1785
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Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception
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IV.III
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p.182
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11958
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Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Molnar]
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1785
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Essays on Intellectual Powers: Senses
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p.19
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6492
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Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Robinson,H]
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II.16
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p.59
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Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is
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1785
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Essays on Intellectual Powers: Memory
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III.Ch 4
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p.107
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21319
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I can hardly care about rational consequence if it wasn't me conceiving the antecedent
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III.Ch 4
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p.108
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21320
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Identity is familiar to common sense, but very hard to define
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III.Ch 4
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p.108
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1350
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Continuity is needed for existence, otherwise we would say a thing existed after it ceased to exist
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III.Ch 4
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p.109
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1352
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Thoughts change continually, but the self doesn't
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III.Ch 4
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p.110
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21321
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Memory reveals my past identity - but so does testimony of other witnesses
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III.Ch 4
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p.111
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21323
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The identity of a thief is only known by similarity, but memory gives certainty in our own case
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III.Ch 4
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p.111
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1356
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A person is a unity, and doesn't come in degrees
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III.Ch 4
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p.112
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1359
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Personal identity is the basis of all rights, obligations and responsibility
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III.Ch 4
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p.112
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21322
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We treat slowly changing things as identical for the sake of economy in language
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III.Ch 6
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p.114
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21325
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Boy same as young man, young man same as old man, old man not boy, if forgotten!
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III.Ch 6
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p.114
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21324
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If consciousness is transferable 20 persons can be 1; forgetting implies 1 can be 20
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III.Ch 6
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p.116
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21327
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If a stolen horse is identified by similitude, its identity is not therefore merely similitude
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III.Ch 6
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p.116
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1366
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If consciousness is personal identity, it is continually changing
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III.Ch 6
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p.116
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1367
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Identity can only be affirmed of things which have a continued existence
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1788
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Essays on Active Powers 1: Active power
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p.62
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20051
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Reid said that agent causation is a unique type of causation [Stout,R]
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p.186
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Day and night are constantly conjoined, but they don't cause one another [Crane]
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