An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense

Earliest Symptoms of Diseases of the Macula

“…Thus, when I look upon a music book, and, shutting my left eye, direct the right eye to a point of the middle line of the five which compose the staff of music, the middle line appears dim indeed at the point to which the eye is directed, but straight; at the same time, the two lines above it and the two below it appear to be bent outwards, and to be more distant from each other and from the middle line, than at other parts of the staff to which the eye is not directed (Reid, 1801).…”

Vulgar Habits and Hume's Double Vision Argument

“…37-8;and Johnson, 1995, pp. Reid, 1764Reid, [1997: 256). Compare the last sentence to T 1.4.2.13: 'So strong is the prejudice for the distinct continu'd existence of the former (secondary) qualities, that when the contrary opinion is advanc'd by modern philosophers, people imagine they can almost refute it from their feeling and experience, and that their very senses contradict this philosophy.'…”

Trustworthiness of Autonomous Systems

“…Often we do not know why we trust, we trust implicitly. Thomas Reid (1764) [75] argued that reasons could not be required for trust given that'most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of what is told them.' Reid's point is that humans must be justified to trust even in the absence of reasons.…”