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1710 – 1796Thomas Reid (1710-1796)Died 7 October 1796, aged 86Thomas Reid was a Scottish philosopher and founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, which opposed the skepticism of David Hume. He held the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.