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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' and 'Improvement of Understanding'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2187	If we suspect that a philosophical term is meaningless, we should ask what impression it derives from [Hume]
	Full Idea: When we entertain any suspicion that a philosophical term is without any meaning or idea, we need but enquire "from what impression is that supposed idea derived?"
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], II.17)