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impression
Also known as: impression, impressions
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Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 6 facts
quoteDavid Hume defines ideas as the “copies” of “impressions,” where impressions are “vivid” and “lively” as received directly from sense experience, while ideas are mental copies of inward or outward impressions that are “faint” or “feeble.”
claimRelational concepts such as 'on'-ness, betweenness, and sameness are not realized by copying impressions, as there are no specific impressions that correspond to these relations.
claimComplex ideas are formed by the mind, either from more than one simple idea or from complex impressions, and are divisible because they have parts.
claimThe human mind is equipped from birth with a structure or architecture that enables it to make sense of raw impressions and form concepts where there is no one-to-one correspondence between impressions and ideas.
claimDavid Hume argues that where there are no impressions, there can be no ideas, using the example that a blind man can have no notion of color.
claimSensations, impressions, and perceptions are considered certain because individuals cannot be wrong about the fact that they are having a particular sensation, even if they are mistaken about the external world.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 2 facts
claimDavid Hume claimed the mind is nothing but a 'bundle' or 'heap' of impressions and ideas, which are particular mental states or events without an owner.
claimDavid Hume believed that an impression might 'float free' from the mind to which it belonged, implying that the identity conditions of individual mental states are independent of the identity of the person who possesses them.