PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Contiguity, Atomism, Falsifiability

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

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So, how are we to interpret the missing shade of blue. A possible charitable reading of the example: think of the mind as a paint shop where impression of colors are mixed, just like paints are mixed in paint shop. In other words, the newly mixed shade of blue is still a simple idea which, however, does not have one antecedent impression, but is composed of a few impression of shades of blue. The next step: determined how our impressions and ideas are connected with each other, discussed in section 3 of the enquiry. Hume argues that the principle of association is the principle which connects both our impression and ideas. The principle of association is not a theoretical principle but a natural operation of the mind (experienced in the internal sensation") If we do not account for the connection between impression and ideas, then we are stuck with eidetic atomism.