Making Sense of Philosophy #1 : Read Reid - 1
Channel: Vortexpuppy
Date: 2019-04-14

Short discussion with Glenn (Orbic Fudpucker) on the first section of the little known book by Thomas Reid called:

Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense.
https://ia600908.us.archive.org/29/items/inquiryintohuman00reidiala/inquiryintohuman00reidiala.pdf

This is a must read for those wishing to understand the workings of their mind, the principles of vision and observation, the foundations of our phenomenal experiences of reality, and many other gems. 

This book highlights the fallacies of the ideal philosophy and other representations of reality, that all maintain that we can have no epistemic knowledge of the real world, and that we can only know the inside of our own heads, ideas or some representative qualia. 

This is the current philosophy that drives science and academia and the reason I attach such importance to be able to discern the differences.

Reid makes the case for direct (Reidean) realism and that the fundamental aspects of all knowledge are garnered from those common sense principles inherent in all of us, past and present, shared by ALL sentient beings.