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


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"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian truths, affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of the senses to produce the objective perception of things, and also of the non-empirical origin of the perception of space and time. Reid refutes Locke's doctrine that perception is a product of the senses, by a thorough and acute demonstration that the collective sensations of the senses do not bear the least resemblance to the world as known in perception, and especially that the five primary qualities of Locke (extension, form, solidity, movement, and number) absolutely could not be afforded us by any sensation of the senses. Accordingly he gives up the question as to the mode of origination and the source of perception as completely insoluble; and although altogether unacquainted with Kant, he gives us, as it were, according to the regula falsi, a thorough proof of the intellectual nature of perception (really first explained by me as a consequence of the Kantian doctrine), and also of the a priori source, discovered by Kant, of its constituent elements, space, time, and causality, from which those primary qualities of Locke first proceed, but by means of which they are easily constructed. Thomas Reid's book is very instructive and well worth reading—ten times more so than all the philosophy together that has been written since Kant." (Arthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Representation. Trans. R. B. Haldane, M.A. and J. Kemp, M.A. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1909 Vol II, Ch. 2. pg. 187)

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Chapters

Dedication 10:04 Read by Steven Reynolds
Introduction 40:06 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Smelling 1:01:11 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Tasting 9:10 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Hearing 13:43 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Touch 1:07:29 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 1 - 7) 1:01:51 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 8 - 10) 51:08 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 11 - 13) 1:10:52 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 14 - 18) 1:04:18 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 19 - 20) 46:52 Read by Steven Reynolds
Of Seeing (Secs. 21 - 23) 39:27 Read by KHand
Of Seeing (Sec. 24) 29:56 Read by KHand
Conclusion 37:08 Read by KHand

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