reid
reid — noun
1. Thomas Reid (1710–1796), a Scottish philosopher who founded the Scottish School
Thomas Reid (1710–1796), a Scottish philosopher who founded the Scottish School of Common Sense. He argued that ordinary human experience gives us direct and reliable knowledge of the world, and he rejected the idea that we only know our own mental impressions.
Students of ethics still read Reid's Essays on the Active Powers of Man.
proper noun capitalisation: Reid's
Reid believed that ordinary perception gives us direct knowledge of the world around us.
philosophical context: common-sense realism
A lecture on Reid's response to Hume drew a large audience at the philosophy department.
The professor compared Reid's view of the mind with that of the French philosopher Descartes.
文法句型
capitalised when referring to the person
用法筆記
The surname is pronounced /riːd/ (same as 'reed'). In academic contexts, Thomas Reid is often called 'the founder of common-sense philosophy'. His ideas are frequently compared with those of David Hume, his contemporary.