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...probably that of David Hume, who opened A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) with the ringing assertion, "All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves...kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS." He had then attributed greater "force and violence" to impressions, as opposed to ideas, which he defined...

...language. Book One of the Treatise of Human Nature begins with the statement, "All the perceptions of the mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS."' Impressions are the immediate objects of aware16 Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science ness that...

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...summarized in a single paragraph what it had taken Locke and Berkeley a vast number of pages to say. All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves...ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought...

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...carried it to the highest pitch. The first sentence of his " Treatise of Human Nature" runs thus : — " All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct heads, which I shall call impressions and ideas." He adds, a little after, that, under the name of...