Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Of the Origin of Ideas
Hume points out that there is a the difference between impressions and ideas. Impressions start outside us and travel through our senses, our emotions, and other mental sense we may contain. On the other hand, our thoughts or ideas, beliefs and convictions, or any memories that we may have connect to or derive from our impressions. He claims that we construct our ideas from basic impressions either through effect, resemblance, or continuation.
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Don't you agree with Hume? Because this one time I think I can agree with him. If you think about it, the saying goes the first impression is always the most important, right? So everytime you make a first impression on something, it from that point on becomes what you form your ideas and thoughts around for that particular thing. Or say u tried something new out for the first time, and you got a bad impression. After thay impression you most likely would never try it agian, and would impose your ideas and conclusions you made of that thing onto the next person willing to try it. You then have your thoughts, and they are now expressed based solely on inmpression...
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