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We are indebted to Keith Lehrer for his groundbreaking work on the philosophy of Thomas Reid. He has done a great deal to make the interest and importance of Reid’s philosophy clear. I would like to thank him for this, and also to raise certain questions concerning his interpretation of Reid’s epistemology. I shall be especially concerned with Lehrer’s view that one among Reid’s principles of common sense stands out as an indispensably important metaprinciple.
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Van Cleve, J. (2003). Lehrer, Reid, and the First of All Principles. In: Olsson, E.J. (eds) The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0013-0_11
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