Besides merely distinguishing between impressions there can be no ideas. For if an idea is simply a copy of an impression, it follows that for every idea there must be a prior impression. Hume's most original and influential ideas deal with the problem of causality. Neither Locke nor Berkeley challenged the basic principle of causality...
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For Hume, the very idea of causality is suspect, and he approaches the problem by asking the question, "what is the origin of the idea of causality?" Since ideas are copies of impressions, Hume asks what gives us the idea of causality. (Feiser) His answer is that there is no impressions corresponding to this idea...
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hume Matters of fact, or knowledge learned through experience, cannot prove how objects function. People believe in matters of fact because they have some other reason for doing so...	3 / 623
hume critique By means of that relation alone we can go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses."(500) I have a firecracker and a lighter. The cause for the firecracker to explode would be me lighting the fuse...	3 / 576
David Hume Besides merely distinguishing between impressions there can be no ideas. For if an idea is simply a copy of an impression, it follows that for every idea there must be a prior impression...	3 / 792
Abc To start, Hume makes the distinction that humans’ relationships with objects are either relations of ideas or matters of fact. “All the object of human reason or inquiry can naturally be divided into, relations of ideas and matters of fact...	1 / 128