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Thomas Reid FRSE (/riːd/; 7 May (26 April O.S.) 1710 – 7 October 1796) a religiously trained Scottish philosopher and a contemporary of David Hume was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen Scotland and he graduated from the University of Aberdeen.

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birth date
1710-04-26
birth place
Scotland, Strachan Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire
death date
1796-10-07
death place
Scotland, Glasgow
era
Age of Enlightenment
influenced
Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Sanders Peirce, G. E. Moore, Roderick Chisholm, George Elder Davie, William Alston, David Hartley (philosopher), Victor Cousin, James Frederick Ferrier, Keith Lehrer, Alvin Plantinga, William James, Nicholas Wolterstorff
influenced by
Cicero, David Hume, George Berkeley, Thomas Aquinas
main interest
Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of mind
notableIdea
Internalism and externalism, Naïve realism
philosophicalSchool
Scottish Common Sense Realism, Scottish Enlightenment

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