| Thomas Reid - 1983 - 448 pages
...accidents. A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and, while the road is fair before him, he may go...the unprosperous state of this part of philosophy hath produced an effect, somewhat discouraging indeed to any attempt of this nature, but an effect... | |
| Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 pages
...traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track", he wrote in 1764, "...but when it ends in a coal-pit, it requires no...that he hath gone wrong, nor perhaps to find out what has misled him". The truth was, that philosophy "has no other root but the principles of common sense";... | |
| Roderick M. Chisholm - 1989 - 185 pages
...Thomas Reid: "A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track, and while the road is fair before him, he may go on...hath gone wrong, nor perhaps to find out what misled him."5 (3) According to the third way of interpreting Mach, your sensations are, for him, fictions... | |
| Kelly James Clark - 1990 - 172 pages
...led astray: A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and, while the road is fair before him, he may go on without suspicion and be followed 144 by others; but, when it ends in a coal-pit it requires no great judgment to know that he hath gone... | |
| Thomas Reid, Derek R. Brookes - 2000 - 380 pages
...accidents. A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and while the road is fair before him, he may go on...wrong, nor perhaps to find out what misled him. In the mean time, the unprosperous state of this part of philosophy hath produced an effect, somewhat discouraging... | |
| Roderick Firth, John Troyer - 1998 - 464 pages
...Thomas Reid: A traveler of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and while the road is fair before him, he may go on...gone wrong, nor perhaps to find out what misled him. (Inquiry into the Human Mind, Ch.. 1, sec. 8) The alternative proposed by these philosophers is to... | |
| A. D. Irvine - 1998 - 370 pages
...empiricism: A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and while the road is fair before him, he may go on...requires no great judgment to know that he hath gone wrong.10 It is worth remarking, I think, that the method of Cartesian doubt made a good deal more sense... | |
| Philip De Bary - 2002 - 224 pages
...criterion: A traveller of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led onto a wrong track . . . but, when it ends in a coal-pit, it requires no great judgment to know that he hath gone wrong. [103b] Second, and more importantly here, Reid may be interpreted as holding that we shouldn't be beginning... | |
| Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 pages
...accidents. A traveller of good judgement may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and while the road is fair before him, he may go on...but when it ends in a coal-pit, it requires no great judgement to know that he has gone wrong, nor perhaps to find out what misled him. In the mean time,... | |
| Steven L. Porter - 2006 - 192 pages
...means. ... A traveler of good judgment may mistake his way, and be unawares led into a wrong track; and, while the road is fair before him, he may go...gone wrong, nor perhaps to find out what misled him. — Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind, 19. 4.0 Introduction Now that we have analyzed the... | |
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