Thomas Reid on Natural Signs, Natural Principles, and the Existence of the External World

Review of Metaphysics 57 (2):279-300 (2003)
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AN EMPIRICIST, ONE MIGHT THINK, OUGHT TO BE AGNOSTIC about the existence of the external world. That, anyway, is the received wisdom of respected empiricists such as David Hume. In A Treatise of Human Nature, book I, part II, section VI, Of the idea of existence, and of external existence, Hume argues that

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