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Nicole Carrabus
HUM 201
Dr. Jordan, Dr. Theiry
10/30/08

Hume: Arrival at Cause and Effect

The mind of a human being has countless resources for creating original thoughts. Where, however, do the building blocks of each new thought come from? David Hume’s, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding expresses the notion that humans are given knowledge and understanding through experience. Not only do our perceptions of the world come from some prior contact but also this contact is the only thing linking a cause with its effect.
Humans know perception as “the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding” (Dictionary.com). Hume’s concept of perception encompasses two types: one being an idea and the other being an impression. Ideas are “the less forcible and lively” perceptions where as impressions are “all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or fell, or love, or hate, or desire, or......

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