reid
reid — 名詞
1. Thomas Reid (1710–1796), a Scottish philosopher who founded the Scottish School
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蘇格蘭常識哲學家
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.
研究倫理學的學生至今仍會閱讀 Reid 的《論人的主動能力》。
proper noun capitalisation: Reid's
Reid believed that ordinary perception gives us direct knowledge of the world around us.
Reid 相信日常的感知能讓我們直接認識周遭的世界。
philosophical context: common-sense realism
A lecture on Reid's response to Hume drew a large audience at the philosophy department.
一場關於 Reid 如何回應 Hume 的講座，吸引了哲學系的大量聽眾。
The professor compared Reid's view of the mind with that of the French philosopher Descartes.
教授將 Reid 的心靈觀與法國哲學家笛卡兒的觀點做了比較。
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.