Schopenhauer_Essay_And_Aphorisms

Schopenhauer Essay And Aphorisms In “An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, is a controversial theoretical book by David Hume. Throughout this book Hume made various theories concerning the formation of the mind and the beliefs that proceed from it. He also gives reasoning for human belief in God, and rationalizing of the external world. One of Hume’s theories about knowledge and ideas which has struck numerous readers as controversial is the theory on “Matters of Fact”. “Matters of Fact” are ideas caused by impressions which are formed by past experiences. Impressions are a vivid insight of the external world and an idea is the weak feeling of an impression. These ideas and impressions are based on the assumption that all ideas have impressions; therefore humans are not able to create ideas without impressions. Also do to the fact that “Matters of Fact are based on past experiences, Hume hypothesis that humans are not able to predict the future, they can only make inferences. Impressions and ideas according to Hume are the major and basic building block of human knowledge. Hume explains impressions as “all our more lively perception, when we hear or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, one, ideas, hume, theory, idea, world, human, humans, because, impressions, hume’s, flaw, effect, theories, person, out, mind, fact, cause, reason, past, about, understanding, things, sun, matters, individual, based, through, therefore, sharp, process, made, look, likelihood