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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination

21806	Memory, senses and understanding are all founded on the imagination [Hume]
	Full Idea: The memory, senses, and understanding are all of them founded on the imagination, or the vivacity of our ideas.
	From: David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], I.IV.7.3), quoted by Stephan Schmid - Faculties in Early Modern Philosophy 5
	A reaction: He seems to have in mind his theory of associations, which are not rational.