In section 2 Hume talks about a contradiction between ideas and impressions. Earlier he talks about how impressions are the things we see, hear, smell and so on. Basically everything all things that we perceive through our senses. While ideas are the compounding of these impressions like remembering how and apple tasted or looked (remembering the color). In this contradiction Hume talks about how if he had seen a few shades of blue he believes he could imagine other shades of blue without ever seeing them.
I am not completely sure about this idea, maybe we could imagine some different shades in which we believe we have not seen. Though i would have to say that we probably did see those shades in some form someone else before and just did not remember it. So i would still have to say that we could not imagine something that we have not seen before.
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I agree. I'm not sure about this idea either.
I agree with Kant, because a person who does not see a specific shade of blue would notice that they don't see it. This is only the case if and only if all the shades of blue are put together on a spectrum. The person would notice that there is a difference in between one of the shades and all the others.
But the question for me is wheather or not this would look weird for a person who was born color blind? and secondly, how could we as outsiders tell weather or not this person sees that specific shade of blue.
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