"Critically Assess The Importance of Hume's Claim That All Our Ideas Must Originate From Preceding Impressions"
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Have a little read: ... Monday 3rd September 2007 "Critically Assess The Importance of Hume's Claim That All Our Ideas Must Originate From Preceding Impressions" To an empiricist (such as Hume) all of our knowledge about the world is known aposteriori, thus it comes from experience alone, and not as a rationalist would claim, from a process of mind evaluation. This in itself raises the first of many criticisms of Hume's work, posing the question; can you gain knowledge independently of experience? Many have argued this is the case and propose innate ideas as a valid example to counter Hume. The main purpose of Hume's "Enquiries" was to provide a psychological rational which distinguished between humans and animals on the basis that humans perceive certain objects and ideas. Initially we must question what Hume means by a perception; according to the Oxford English Dictionary a perception is "a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to
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