![]() Hume also divides people’s perception of the world into two categories, ideas and impressions, where one is dependent on the other: “the ideas I form are exact representations of the impressions I felt nor is there any circumstance of the one, which is not to be found in the other” (Hume 3). The author argues that innate ideas no longer exist: “the principle of innate ideas has been already refuted, and is now almost universally rejected in the learned world” (Hume 158). This sentence summarizes the entire argument of Book I Hume claims that all human knowledge is based on experience or in some way derived from it. He follows the popular notion of empiricism by arguing that experience and observation are essential in most science subjects, as well as in the study of human nature: “as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation” (Hume xx). ![]() ![]() In the introduction to Book I, Hume claims that all sciences are ultimately dependent on human knowledge, yet the subject of knowledge is rarely addressed adequately by the scholars (xix). ![]()
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