e themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call impressions and ideas" (Solomon, 223). Hume defines impressions as, "perceptions which enter with most force and violence...all our sensations, passions and emotions as they make their first appearance in the soul" (Solomon, 223); direct, vivid, and forceful products of a person's immediate experience. And according to this theory, ideas are merely copies of these impressions within the mind. Therefore, with every impression there is a corresponding idea and without an impression ther
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