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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. |