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In David Hume's seminal epistemological work, Section II (in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding), "Of the Origin of Ideas," wherein David Hume outlines, with uncommon sharpness and uncanny skill, not only what he believed to be the true ....

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... experience. These "thoughts/ideas" are by definition marked by their inferior force or vivacity they hold compared to "impressions," which Hume defines as "real experiences": love, hate, will, desire and so on. His argument to this is that, he says, take a blind or deaf man that has been blind or deaf since birth. They cannot picture color or sound, though they have the natural capacities for such. They simply lack the necessary "impression" of sound or color, as so they can visualize and manipulate these concepts with their imaginations. These all seem like good philosophical argumentation, and are highly convincing, except for ...