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Thomas Reid argues for the importance of the philosophy of mind, recognizes the obstacles to knowing the mind's inner workings, sketches its history, including Hume and Berkeley. Reid argues against skepticism and for common sense in matters of the mind. "It is a bold philosophy that rejects, without ceremony, principles which irresistibly govern the belief and the conduct of all mankind in the common concerns of life; and to which the philosopher himself must yield, after he imagines he hath confuted them."