Hume And Descartes On The Theory Of Ideas
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David Hume and Rene Descartes are philosophers with opposing views about
the origination of ideas. Descartes believed there were three types of ideas
which are, innate, adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since he
exists and his idea of what a perfect being is, such as God, then G ....
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.... according to him. I believe this is a
strength of his because of his convincing argument, "If the objective reality
of any one of my ideas is found to be so great that I am certain that the same
reality was not in me…therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then
it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the world, but that something
else, which is the cause of this idea, also exists" (75). Descartes weakness is
his idea of innate ideas. It is not necessarily correct ....
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