 Although Vives is rarely mentioned in the scholarly literature on the Scottish philosophy of “Common Sense,” the impact of his thought on leading exponents of the school was significant. William Hamilton (1788–1856) praised Vives’ insights on memory and the laws of association. In his “Contributions Towards a History of the Doctrine of Mental Suggestion or Association”, he quotes extensive portions of Vives’ account of memory and maintains that the observations of “the Spanish Aristotelian” comprise “nearly all of principal moment that has been said upon this subject, either before or since”. Moreover, Vives’ Dialectices libri quatuor (1550) was one of the primary sources of Thomas Reid (1710–1796) in his “A Brief Account of Aristotle’s Logic” (1774).