Schopenhauer praised Reid for explaining that the perception of external objects does not result from the raw data that is received through the five senses:
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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will. He also focused extensively on ethics, theory of action, language and philosophy of mind.
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Born 26 April 1710 · Died 7 October 1796 · Q316347
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Died 1796-10-07.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783).
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Born 1710-04-26.
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