"It seems a proposition, which will not admit of much dispute, that all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses."
From what it seems to me is that Hume is starting to contradict himself here. Earlier in the book he was talking about how we can excel past the limits of our own minds, and here it seems that he is trying to tell us that we are all pre-programmed. I am interpreting it as if he wants us to think it is impossible for us to think farther than our external and internal senses.
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I agree with what you are saying about him contradicting himself. I feel as though he is saying that if we havent already felt something by either of our senses then we cant even think of it. I dont think this is true at all a person can imagine feeling a certain feeling or something else without knowing what it feels like.
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