Hume: Philosophy Terms

The capacity to recall past experiences and to retain knowledge in the present knowledge acquired in the past. Lets you recall.

The ability to represent objects or states of affairs that cannot exist, that do not exist or do not exist here or now. Empiricists held that imagination is created with what is seen with the mind's eye.

Mental objects involved when we are feeling and experiencing and can be sensations, passions, or emotions

Mental objects involved in thinking and reasoning

The idea that all objects one can imagine are copied into the mind from past experiences (Blue Shade counter example)

Meaning and truth are determined by verifiability or confirmability, for any sentence to be cognitively meaningful it must express a statement that is either analytic or empirically verifiable

Mental Faculty that lets content enter mind

For any term, ask from what impression is it derived.

A view explaining the pattern occurrence of ideas in our minds. (Resemblance, Contiguity, Cause and Effect) The occurrence of one idea will lead the mind to its correlative.

All things that fall under the same predicate resemble one another. Think Photo of relative.

If two objects are next to or succeed each other, they are contiguous. Windows on a building.

The firm and constant relation between events such that if an event of the first kind occurs, an event of the second kind will or must occur.

Relations of Ideas (A² +B² =C²⁾ and Matters of Fact (Swans are White)

Cannot be otherwise, Mathematical in nature, the contrary contains a contradiction (1=3). A Priori. Analytic

Can be otherwise (All swans are white), discovery empirical to solution, A posterior, Synthetic