PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Scottish Enlightenment, Nba Coach Of The Year Award, Causal Reasoning
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He regarded his enquiry concerning human understanding as the clearest expression of his mature philosophical views, which were meant to put the study of man on a scientific basis. He begins with the following three claims: (t1) all perceptions are either (a) impressions, or (b) ideas, (t2) sensing and sentiment produce only impressions, whereas thinking, (t3) all ideas are copies" of impressions produces only ideas. Impressions are distinguished from ideas in being more forceful and lively in themselves: it roughly matches up with the distinction between feeling and thinking, present experience and non-present experience. The idea of a golden mountain as he says in 2. 13, is clearly derived from the imaginative combination of the idea-of-gold and the idea- of-the-mountain. It"s worth noting that hume assumes that compounding ideas results in an idea with compound content not an obvious claim. Hence we may reformulate hume"s explicit theses as follows:
