Reid Synonyms

Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thomas reid

Words Related to Reid

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Related:

  1. robertson
  2. kerr
  3. clarke
  4. campbell
  5. millar
  6. o-brien
  7. mckay
  8. ferguson
  9. paterson
  10. cameron
  11. henderson
  12. cunningham
  13. mackay
  14. robinson
  15. callaghan

Reid Sentence Examples

  • But he was chiefly attracted to the philosophical system represented by Reid and Stewart.

  • He thus threw in his lot with the Scottish philosophy, and his first dissertations are, in their leading position, adaptations from Reid's Inquiry.

  • The Scottish philosophy of Thomas Reid and his successors believed that David Hume's scepticism was no more than the genuine outcome of Locke's sensationalist appeal to experience when ripened or forced on by the immaterialism of Bishop Berkeley - God and the soul alone; not God, world and soul.

  • Robert Reid, who ruled from 1526 to 1540, was its greatest abbot.

  • Reid graduated at Aberdeen in 1726, and remained there as librarian to the university for ten years, a period which he devoted largely to mathematical reading.

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