David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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In David Hume's seminal epistemological work, Section II (in An
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding), "Of the Origin of Ideas," wherein
David Hume outlines, with uncommon sharpness and uncanny skill, not only
what he believed to be the true origin of what we call ideas, but the way
we formulate ....
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.... "impressions," which Hume
defines as "real experiences": love, hate, will, desire and so on. His
argument to this is that, he says, take a blind or deaf man that has been
blind or deaf since birth. They cannot picture color or sound, though they
have the natural capacities for such. They simply lack the necessary
"impression" of sound or color, as so they can visualize and manipulate
these concepts with their imaginations.
These all seem like good philosophical argumentation, and are
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