Malik Rivera
Professor Zoey Lavallee TR9A
10 October 2017 Short Essay Assignment:Topic One David Hume, author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, discusses two natural abilities we as human beings possess. Those are ideas and impressions. I agree with Hume when he says ideas are from our thoughts, beliefs, or memories. Hume’s view point on our thoughts, beliefs, and memories, and how they come from our perception was something I thought was justified well with evidence. This causes us to create, and expand our thinking. This is where the term ideas comes from. According to Hume, impressions come through our senses, emotions, and other mental development. After the reading I came to the conclusion that Impressions and ideas are entwined with each other in Hume’s eyes, because we connect our ideas to our impressions naturally in three ways (resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect).
Resemblance is using our past experiences in a specific instance to determine its outcome. Hume would say we used resemblance to from similar predictions. Resemblance is overall moving from impression to idea. It’s made for you to flashback and compare to something from your memory. For example, moving from seeing an object in person to thinking about it.
Contiguity in a place and time is Hume’s second principle of association. This is moving …show more content…
These three principles define and make up these ideas and impressions. He used these two types of perceptions, and justified both of them to his principles. Hume once stated “ A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”.Throughout my reading I was skeptical at first, then as I kept reading it became clearer as to what he was trying to get across. The evidence was being laid out. Hume is an author I look forward to reading more from in the
Professor Zoey Lavallee TR9A
10 October 2017 Short Essay Assignment:Topic One David Hume, author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, discusses two natural abilities we as human beings possess. Those are ideas and impressions. I agree with Hume when he says ideas are from our thoughts, beliefs, or memories. Hume’s view point on our thoughts, beliefs, and memories, and how they come from our perception was something I thought was justified well with evidence. This causes us to create, and expand our thinking. This is where the term ideas comes from. According to Hume, impressions come through our senses, emotions, and other mental development. After the reading I came to the conclusion that Impressions and ideas are entwined with each other in Hume’s eyes, because we connect our ideas to our impressions naturally in three ways (resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect).
Resemblance is using our past experiences in a specific instance to determine its outcome. Hume would say we used resemblance to from similar predictions. Resemblance is overall moving from impression to idea. It’s made for you to flashback and compare to something from your memory. For example, moving from seeing an object in person to thinking about it.
Contiguity in a place and time is Hume’s second principle of association. This is moving …show more content…
These three principles define and make up these ideas and impressions. He used these two types of perceptions, and justified both of them to his principles. Hume once stated “ A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”.Throughout my reading I was skeptical at first, then as I kept reading it became clearer as to what he was trying to get across. The evidence was being laid out. Hume is an author I look forward to reading more from in the