...thinks, " it " takes away all the evidence we have of w other intelligent beings like ourfelves ; " what I call a father, a brother, or a friend, " is...own mind, " and being ideas in my mind, they cannot * I Reid, 252, 253. On the Mind, 107. Encyclop. Britt 544. 547- 549. poffibly ' ' " poffibly have that...

...pp. 113; 120. 88. Ibid., pp. 28-29. Cf. Reid, Works, p. 285: The theory of ideas "... seems to lake away all the evidence we have of other intelligent...friend, is only a parcel of ideas in my own mind." 89. Ibid., pp. 216-217. Cf. Reid, Works, pp. 373: ". . . there appears to me no contradiction in his...

...reason to think any other minds exist, since, as Thomas Reid complained, according to anti-realism "what I call a father, a brother, or a friend, is only a parcel of ideas in my own mind."23 In other words, anti-realism threatens to collapse into the philosophy that dare not speak...