The Origins of Ideas

Hume says there is a difference in general between perceiving a hot thing and remembering that hot thing but we can never be sure we're not hallucinating or dreaming or just making an error in our recollection yet Hume goes on to say quote these faculties may mimic or copy the perceptions of the senses but they never can entirely reach the force and vivacity of the original sentiment. If everyone will readily allow us his Hume that's a terrible appeal to the masses I don't know about this, i think Descartes himself had already explained why this could not be readily allowed yeah okay he also makes a distinction later between a man who is angry and a man who recalls what it is like to