Reid

Cited as Reid. — 13 quotations

Accuracy

The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.

Apparent

What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.

Appurtenance

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.

Belief

Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance.

Caliber

The caliber of empty tubes.

Contemplation

In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left.

Identical

I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist.

Insentient

The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance.

Mind

By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills.

Reflect

All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought.

Sentiment

Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external objects.

Time

I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time.

Will

Will is an ambiguous word, being sometimes put for the faculty of willing; sometimes for the act of that faculty, besides [having] other meanings. But “volition” always signifies the act of willing, and nothing else.