He uses the term “perception” to represent any mental content, which is divided into “impression” and “ideas”. Impressions are all the sensations, passions and emotions that we experience while ideas copies of those impressions in our memories and imagination. According to Hume, we can only know what we experience, and with that notion Hume has refuted the other kinds of existence proposed by his predecessors, such as the existence of external
He uses the term “perception” to represent any mental content, which is divided into “impression” and “ideas”. Impressions are all the sensations, passions and emotions that we experience while ideas copies of those impressions in our memories and imagination. According to Hume, we can only know what we experience, and with that notion Hume has refuted the other kinds of existence proposed by his predecessors, such as the existence of external