Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a Scottish philosopher and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He is best known for founding the Scottish School of Common Sense, which emphasized the importance of common sense beliefs and perceptions as a foundation for knowledge, contrasting with the skepticism and rationalism of contemporary philosophers like David Hume and René Descartes. Reid argued that our perceptions of the world are generally reliable and that certain fundamental truths about the world are self-evident and foundational.
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