Timeline for Hume on Induction vs Education
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| Nov 11, 2019 at 11:21 | comment | added | Delforge | I was indeed confused between the origin of ideas and Hume's causation, i.e., the association of ideas involving time, space and constant conjunction. But in his inquiry of human understanding, II., Hume does not define ideas as copies of some original impression. That is rather the definition of a simple idea but not an idea in general. The distinction with impressions is posed as a matter of "their different degrees of force and vivacity". He also spoke about compound ideas, e.g., the Idea of God as being one-to-many with respect to the ideas of infinity, intelligent, wise, and good. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 7:59 | vote | accept | Delforge | ||
| Nov 7, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | Conifold | I think the problem will remain even after cleaning up the terminology. The question is about the ultimate source of ideas: is it inductive/empirical/habitual (Hume) or innate (Descartes). Yes, ideas can be acquired through education, but that only shifts the question rather than answers it. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 17:01 | answer | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 12:58 | comment | added | Delforge | Thanks for the comments, I will try to rephrase and edit my question with the correct terminology. But I am not especially referring to complex ideas, I have never seen a Lion, neither a murder but I have an "idea" about these. My point is that observation and experimentation has a cost in terms of time, money, or risk. Education allows to have an "idea" of something at lower cost. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 12:18 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | You are mixing two different meaning of "idea". For Hume ideas are different from impressions because they are "copied from some original impression, whether it be a passion or sensation, from which they derive." They are something simple, like the idea od dog. When you say that "ideas just come from education" you are thinking at more complex conceptions, like ethical or religious ones. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 11:59 | comment | added | M. le Fou | Your characterization of Hume here is odd. In the Treatise for example, Hume says ideas are one-to-one with impressions, which means that ideas (he calls them "simple ideas") are not built upon repeated observations but on the contrary, a single observation. | |
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