whats the difference betweeen an impression and an idea?
Is an impression a manifestation of an idea to your perception?
an impression is what is left on the ground after you fall from an airplane…
-Imp
What the hell does the following mean in very stupid people terms? :
[b]As there is only a distinction of reason between figure and figure colored, so there is only a distinction of reason between impression and ideas. Hume repeatedly states that impressions and ideas differ only in terms of force and vivacity. Ideas are “exact representations” of impressions “nor is there any circumstance in one that is not found in the other”. Perceptions differ only in degree not in nature. Later in the treatise, Hume would put the matter beyond dispute. Different degrees of force and vivacity are the only particulars that distinguish them. The doctrine extends to other basic distinctions. Thus vivacity distinguishes ideas of memory from ideas of imagination, conception from belief, understanding from imagination, and generally , thinking from feeling.
…Although Hume insists that sympathy, or fellow feeling, is fundamental to moral judgment, he recognizes that sympathetically acquired feelings vary in strength according to a number of circumstances that are irrelevant…[/b]
(if you ain’t sympathetic, you ain’t gonna feel no fellas…)
you aren’t going to experience the event the way it is described as much as you would if you experienced it- and even then your experience isn’t exactly like another…
-Imp
Is he saying that there’s an unifying objective element of individual perspective? And that in as much as we can apply this in our impressions of ideas that there is identity of the two?
Maybe when you’re just thinking about the tree, your impression of it is limited by a lack of sensory perception of the tree?
So when you see the tree you get a more vivid impression because of the combination of both sensory perception and you’re own hard wired notions of tree-ness?
nope… I am looking at maple tree… vivid direct impression via the senses… in my mind, the “ideal” maple doesn’t have that many bent branches… of course tree-ness is a property of flow charts, not maples…
-Imp
I think he’s pointing out that you can “see” an impression, but you cannot “see” an idea.
They refer to the same things, but ideas are a higher level of thinking.
That’s my scholastic take on it, anyway.
An impression is a visual perception - say: The impression of a Man standing in front of you.
An Idea is the mental cognition of that man - that the mental thought of the man!
Impression - Senses!
Idea - Consciousness!
Am I on the right track? Hell, I know I am…!
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