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Sunday, November 15, 2009

"Essays on the intellectual powers of Man" by Thomas Reid,1788


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and "Essays on the active powers of the Human Mind"
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There is no intermediate between the mental act and the object of knowledge ;
perception is the direct experience of things present in the senses.
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All the intellectual powers involve apprehension of some content and judgment.
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We have immediate experience of spatial extension and of temporal duration,
and this intuitive knowledge supplies first principles.
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Through perception and memory we acquire probable knowledge,
through conception and abstraction,knowledge of necessary truths.
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God has supplied men with consciences which provide intuitive knowledge of the right and the wrong ; in following his moral sense no man need fear a conflict of interrest and duty.
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