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.