our minds can create new ideas from the components which ex… - David Hume

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our minds can create new ideas from the components which experience has already given us, by combining together our existing ideas in new ways or by shuffling the components of our existing ideas, but we are quite unable to form any completely new ideas beyond those that have already been given to us by sensation or feeling.

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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David Hume (7 May 1711, N.S. [April 26, O.S.] – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist.

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