An Analysis Of David Hume’s “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”
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In his passage “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, David Hume seeks to answer the popular philosophical question of how human beings acquire knowledge. To Hume, knowledge is what the mind perceives, and these perceptions can be broken down and classified in two distinct categories; ( ....
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.... mentally, than merely rethinking or recalling them.
To support his doctrine, Hume gives an example of how “A blind man can form no notion of colours”. A blind man cannot form impressions of a color because he lacks the ability to see, thus without these impressions, the man cannot imagine what the color red is or what it looks like. But, if somehow the blind man is able to see, “this new inlet for his sensations” will provide the ability to conceive ideas. This ability of conceiving ....
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