Hume’s work has a very cohesive argument on how the human mind perceives things and how it knows the things it knows. It brought in many of the nuances of human perceptions and it did not talk in absolutes; we don’t come out completely knowing everything even though we have some things we never even remember learning in the first place, but we do have an inkling of in born, instinctual, thought. We cannot completely understand something after experiencing it once, we must revisit it in our mind or experience it again. Thoughts take practice. There are different levels to our thoughts because of the differences of intensities. The human mind cannot treat all the information it has and processes the same way because it isn’t practical, so instead it prioritizes things and doesn’t immediately process things. Impressions are like planting a seed in your mind: impressions that receive the attention they need will grow into bigger and complex ideas and …show more content…
For example, human beings have a natural aversion to things that are bitter because usually bitter things are poisonous. If you ask a person who has never had anything bitter in their life, they will not understand the concept of bitterness but if they taste something bitter, they do not need to be told that bitter is bad. There are impressions that they were born with but needed the actual life experience to actually understand it. These emotions and and opinions on things can range from something as simple as taste as to something such as empathy or a work ethic, that is constant seen to be relatively constant throughout the human population, that once you are affected by something that triggers these emotions, you have the ideas. The consistency across the human species can lead one to assume that there is something intrinsic to these emotions, like an imbedded impression of how the ways are supposed to