Monster Essays - David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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 them. According to Hume, little thought is truly a priori or
innate. He believed that thoughts originate from "impressions," or actual
sensual experience, that they are simply weak "echoes" of these
impressions and no stronger, and that our mind, though seemingly....
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