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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; (1) T ....
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....t, another person may see the color yellow and imagine its “colorness” as being what I consider to be red. We, as humans, may be able to relate to each others thoughts and ideas, or in this case visual perceptions, but we can never truly know what sensations are being experienced by that individual. This example is the best way I can describe what Hume refers to as “thoughts and ideas”. Human thoughts and ideas are compounded impressions. The human mind is able to produce images of real thin.... |
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