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"Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man"
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Date: 1785
"Modern Philosophers, as well as the Peripatetics and Epicureans of old, have conceived, that external objects cannot be the immediate objects of our thought; that there must be some image of them in the mind itself, in which, as in a mirror, they are seen."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)