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Essay / David Hume's Principle of Copying - 1059
I believe that ideas are not formed innately in the mind. From the moment we are born, we are surrounded by impressions of the world. Inspired by our own desire for self-discovery, we offer concepts derived from everyday life experiences. Not only can we create these ideas from external events, but they can also be created internally. However, the emotions we feel in different contexts like love, anger, sadness, or even the general way we feel towards someone, are based on interactions. For example, when a child tastes vegetables for the first time and discovers that he doesn't like them. This child could not have an idea of what the vegetable tasted like without experiencing it first. David Hume believed in the principle of copying, that ideas come from impressions. According to Hume, we cannot form ideas without impressions. Ideas themselves are simply less vivid impressions or compound impressions formed by the mind. Despite this, there has been one instance where Hume's copying principle has been called into question. In the case of the man who goes blind after thirty, who has never had the impression of a certain shade of blue, he may be able to have some idea of what it would look like. At the time, Hume didn't think it was anything important that could go against this idea of the copying principle. Nancy Kendrick uses this missing shade of blue to show that this counterexample actually provides Hume with an empiricist, not nativist, example of the priority of an idea over experience and, therefore, vitalizes, rather than diminishes , its most key empiricist objectives. Additionally, Kendrick also uses John Lock as a reference to support Hume's claims that he rejects innate ideas and, in return, understands middle of paper......having no experiential counterpart (Kendrick, 2009) . . The concept of ideas, which does not come from the corresponding impressions, somehow makes the missing shade of blue a slight exception, but there is not enough reason to extend it. Hume suggests that the idea of the missing hue may arise from the imagination. Kendrick draws on the Treatise as a suggestion for arguing about the missing shade of blue; The imagination, when engaged in a train of thought, is apt to continue, even when its object fails it, and, like a galley set in motion by oars, it continues its course without any new impulse. Hume's copying principle is closely related to many aspects. to understand the understanding of the individual. The impressions we receive throughout our lives are the driving force behind the ideas we create. Although not all ideas are based on the same impression, they arise from our daily experiences..