My paper offers a new interpretation of Reid's account of social operations of the human mind. I argue that it is important to acknowledge the counterpart structure of social operations. By this I mean that for Reid every social operation is paired with a counterpart operation. On the view that I ascribe to Reid, at least two intelligent beings take part in a social operation and the social operation does not come into existence until both the social operation and its counterpart operation have been exercised and the relevant mental thoughts made known to the other being by words or signs.

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托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid）谈人类心灵的承诺和社会运作

我的论文对里德关于人类思维的社会运作的描述提供了新的解释。我认为承认社会运作的对应结构很重要。我的意思是，对于 Reid，每个社交操作都与对应操作配对。根据我归于 Reid 的观点，至少有两个智能生物参与了一个社会运作，而这个社会运作只有在社会运作及其对应运作都被执行并且相关的心理想法被告知其他是通过文字或符号。