Resumen de Thomas Reid on common sense: a meta‐rational approach to truth
From time to time certain thinkers have suggested a pathway to truth apart from reason—a way which describes the foundation of the mind's cognitive ability as something other than rationality—making it a crucial concern in human communication. For example, Hindu thought, Augustine, and even Plato offer such alternatives to reason. Surprisingly, Thomas Reid, not a mystic at all but himself an offspring of the age of reason, a man seeking to puncture the bilious skepticism of the period and to bring philosophy back into the marketplace, postulated such a meta‐rational approach to truth and called it common sense.
