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Reid, Thomas
(b. Strachan, Kincardineshire, April 26th, 1710, d. Glasgow, October 7th, 1796). “Essay on Quantity” (1745); “An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense” (1764); “The Logics of Aristotle” appended to Lord Kames’s “Sketches of the History of Man” (1773), “Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man” (1785); and “Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind” (1788). “Works,” with Dissertation and Notes, by Sir William Hamilton, and with a “Life” by Dugald Stewart, in 1846. For Criticism, see Priestley, Dugald Stewart, Brown, Royer Collard, Cousin, Professor Fraser, and McCosh.
