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Hume's Argument 'Copy Principle' By David Hume

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The statement “Hume takes Empiricism to its logical, most radical endpoint.” Considering his views on the “copy principle”, causation, and the self. The “copy principle” argument by Hume discusses the relationship between simple ideas and simple impressions. He believes that impressions are formed by ideas and he uses the example of a golden mountain. When we think of this mountain, our first thought is the words golden and mountain, where we were able to form these two words from impressions. Hume’s two arguments about the copy principle states, our simple ideas come from a feeling and man who is born with a problem are not familiar with the impressions of an object. Hume believes that through experiences, we can imitate impressions from
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