Journal of Scottish Philosophy 16 (3):211-226 (2018)
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Thomas Reid believed that the human mind is well equipped, from infancy, to acquire knowledge of the external world, with all its objects, persons and events.
There are three main faculties that are involved in the acquisition of knowledge:
(original) perception, memory, and imagination. It is thought that we cannot
understand how exactly perception works, unless we have a good grasp on Reid’s
notion of perceptual conception (i.e., of the conception employed in perception).
The present paper argues that the same is true of memory, and it offers an answer
to the question: what type of conception does it employ?
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Keywords | Thomas Reid immediate knowledge of the past memory conceptual and non-conceptual content conception perception |
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DOI | 10.3366/jsp.2018.0204 |
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