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All our ideas, the fainter perceptions, are copies of our impressions, the more lively ones
Drawn from what David Hume said
What David Hume actually said
- David Hume Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776)
Or, to express myself in philosophical language, all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones.
Where this was said
↗An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; 1777 edition, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge)gutenberg.org
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