Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
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Perceptual cognition of body in descartes ; Malevranche on perception and knowledge ;Direct presence among the cartesians ; British presence ; Locke and Malebranche: two concepts of idea ; Ideas in logic and psychology ; perceptual ptics ; Hume on single and double existence ; Hume on imagination: A magical faculty of the soul ; Hume's ideas ; Sense and meaning.
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Perceptual Acquaintance was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Philosophers, wrote Thomas Reid in 1785, ""all suppose that we perceive not external objects immediately, and that the immediate objects of perception are only certain shadows of the external objects."" To Reid, a founding father of the common-sense school of philosophy, John Locke's ""way of ideas"" threatened to supplant, in human knowledge, the world.