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~ Thomas Reid Quote
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
~ Thomas Reid Quote
When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of anything, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it.
~ Thomas Reid Quote
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
~ Thomas Reid Quote
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.
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I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots — the bottom of the bottom — and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless.
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
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It follows also, that the active power, of which only we can have any distinct conception, can be only in beings that have understanding and will.
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The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object
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The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon; it may be something past or future; it may be something which never existed
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In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose.
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