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||1796 | File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. | ||
||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||
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1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind.