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"Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry."
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"Direct realism is the view that the immediate (direct) objects of perception are external objects, qualities, and events.
[...] Obviously, sometimes we misperceive the world. The direct realist does not deny that there are perceptual illusions. The claim is, rather, simply that when we do perceive something, what we directly perceive, the immediate object of perception, is in the external world, not in the mind."
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