Hume think that our memory have a way of fading ideas that is once there. We can't never recall the same ideas back from the orginal state.
" every one 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 anticipates it by his imagination. These faculties may mimic or copy the perceptions of senses;but they never can entirely reach the force and vivacity of the original sentiment."
and i agree with what he is saying. When you touch something that is really hot at that moment, it's really painful, but once one hour pass, when you try to recall the pain, it's really hard to recall the same pain.
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I also agree with hume because when you try recalling something you will not have the same vivacy as if it just happened. you gave an example about touching somehting hot.. but when you touch something that is hot it may not be as hot as the one before so you cant always have the same sensation
the example i gave i just want to show my point about how something that is hot to a degree can no longer be that hot in your mind once you have cool down and faited on the memmory.
i disagree with both because i dont think that our minds can recall the intensity of a burn. i think that when we burn a finger our minds register it as the worst burn because who can actually recall that same pain for so long.
but that's the point that Hume is talking about u can't recall the burn bec our memory do faid
I agree with you on and Hume on this one. It is hard to recall any one moment, feeling or emotion exactly as it happened. This is because as it is stored and then remembered I think that the exactness and vividness of the thought gets a little jumbled. Often it is easy to remember what happened right after but then a day or two later it would be impossible to retell the feeling with any certainty.
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