PHIL 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scottish Common Sense Realism, Thought Experiment

• School: Trent University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000H
• Professor: Douglas Mc Dermid

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Let"s you know of your mental states. Understanding how much you believe of what other people tell you. Not what is real , but what is ultimately real. How something seems vs. how something really is. Would the real socrates please stand up . Reid did not agree with descartes, said he argued in a cartesian circle. Common sense realism: there is a world, and you know it in direct perception: the existence of mind independent things, is as obvious to. Reid as the existence of anything, and we are all naturally inclined to believe in mind independent things: common sense: First principle: common = everyone has it, sense = direct and involuntary. You can have a disbelief for realism, but when you go into the world you cannot help but accept it, we are hardwired, they are psychological irresistible and self-evident.