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Common Sense Realism
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has two histories. The first concerns the effort by Thomas Reid (1710–1796) to refute the skeptical conclusions that D. Hume had drawn from the sensationalist epistemology of J. Locke. Reid's main argument was that sense perceptions, operating under normal conditions disclose the material world as it is.They are not, as Locke had suggested, merely “ideas.” Reid suggested rather that the human mind is structured in such a way that it is impossible to act and think as if the universal (or common) sensations of normal human beings did not reveal th…

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Noll, Mark A., “Common Sense Realism”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_03165>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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