An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense / By Thomas Reid.

  • Thomas Reid
Date:
1769
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Credit: An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense / By Thomas Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vii DEDICATION. ed upon the mind, which are called - ampreffions and ideas, OTT TA ES TRL ne OEE ti —_ ] tie liane zs Ir this be true; fuppofing certain impreflions and ideas to exift in my mind, I cannot, from their exiftence, infer the exiftence of any thing elfe ; my impreffions and ideas are the only exiftences of which I can have any knowledge. or conception: and they are fuch fleeting and tranfitory beings, that they can have no exiftence at all, * them: So that, upon this hypothefis, the whole univerfe about me, bodies and {pirits, fun,: moon, ftars, and earth, friends and relations, all things without exception, which I imagined to have a. permanent . exiftence, whether I thought of them or not, vanifh at once; And like the bafele/s fabric of a vifion, Leave not a tract behind,