Among Catholic theologians, writers such as theologian François Fénelon and philosopher Claude Buffier (1661-1737) gave an anti-Cartesian defense of common sense as a foundation for knowledge.
Gilson argued that Thomism avoided the problem of having to decide between Cartesian innate certainties and Reid's uncertain common sense, and that "as soon as the problem of the existence of the external world was presented in terms of common sense, Cartesianism was accepted" [REF].