Idet här avsnittet fortsätter vi vår diskussion av Thomas Reids mästerverk Aninquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense från 1764.

Vidiskuterar han kritik av Descartes och Humes metod samt hans socialepistemologiska teori.

”The evidence of sense, the evidence ofmemory, and the evidence of the necessary relations of things, are all distinctand original kind of evidence, equally grounded on our constitution: none ofthem depends upon, or can be resolved into another. To reason against any ofthese kind of evidence, is absurd; nay, to reason for them, is absurd. They arefirst principles; and such fall not within the province of Reason but of CommonSense”