Monday, April 21, 2008
Impressions and Ideas
In sections 2 & 3, Hume discusses impressions and ideas and distinguishes between the two. He says that impressions are "lively and vivid" and ideas deal with memory and imagination, therefore they are less "lively and vivid". Hume says that impressions are "all are more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or hate, or desire, or will". He continues to say that ideas are merely the memories of impressions. Since Hume is an empiricist, this means he feels all our knowledge must come from impressions.
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I agree with this point that impressions are livly and vivid and what makes up our ideas are these impressions that we gained from our perceptions. Thus all knowledge we have comes from our senses what we see, feel, touch taste, smell and hearing
Impression are aslo created from cause and effect relationships. the empiricist i think has a problem of showing that impresions exist like the rationalist has the problem of showing the mind exist. I think i might be confusing myself.
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