Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hume’s Epistemology - Association of Ideas:

•When we have an experience of something (seeing and then eating an apple) we have collections of impressions of (round, red, juicy, etc.). What leads our minds to form the complex idea of an apple?

•Hume’s answer: through repeated experiences we come to associate these ideas with each other.There are three “Principles of Association”:

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