The Origin of Ideas

David Hume is my personal nomination for the greatest philosopher of the 17th and 18th centuries which I would say is a notable achievement among the luminaries. John Stuart Mill he was from the 19th century that's why he doesn't get a mention in my my favorite philosophers of that era okay so Hume Hume begins in this section on of the origin of ideas with quoteThis is from you everyone will readily allow that there is a considerable difference between the perceptions of the mind when a man feels the pain of excessive heat or the pleasure of moderate warmth and when he afterwards recalls to his memory this sensation or sensations.