• An Essay with Personal Opinions on Hume and Descartes on the Theory of Ideas

     

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Publicēts: 28.10.1997.
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David Hume and Rene Descartes are philosophers with opposing views about the origination of ideas. Descartes believed there were three types of ideas which are, innate, adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since he exists and his idea of what a perfect being is, such as God, then God exists. Hume, on the other had, believed ideas came only from one thing, impressions. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses but I like Hume's theory better than Descartes.
Descartes believed imagination could not help humans. …

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