On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
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The Impossibility of Knowing Cause and Effect
Hume says that the only place our concepts can come from is our own am, kind of conscious impressions. He endorses what he calls a copy principle, which is, if you have an idea something tha, you can sort of call to mind at will and think by means of which that idea must have had its source in an impression. And hume thinks he can convince you that when you really try to investigate where that concept comes from, you'll find an answer - but it won't be the answer you expected.
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