Part one of term paper
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 origin of what we call ideas, but the way we formulate them. According to Hume, little thought is ...

Part two of term paper
... and the foundation of his argument in Section II, is the theory that ideas, or what could loosely be called the "imagination" or "mind's eye," are simply grainy photocopies of true 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 bi ...