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Human Understanding

to two parts you are left with four parts, in seeing this if a person did not know addition tables that makes the logic of mathematics still true. So in believing something is true and to be able to categorize in your mind this concept and its worth in truth it should be beyond and doubt.Descartes broke what we common people assume of processing information into a mathematical formula. Where the information we receive plus its doubt of being true equals the answer of information being true and worth retaining as knowledge or if it should be forgotten. Rene Descartes believed in the human mind and its ability to reason and this singular fact to him was what separated us humans from animals. Descartes also believed there were other parts of ones soul. Descartes believes that a person’s soul could be the reason for their greatness. The soul was the catalyst that drove the mind to become great. To say a personal would also be great.David Hume the second philosopher did not see matters so clear and distinct when dealing with ones self. Hume on the other hand did not think the matter of understanding could be explained as a simple math problem. Instead Hume decided that mathematics was not even comparable to the concept of how we gain understand. Hume agreed that mathematics was clear and distinct answers, but something as complicated and complex as the human mind mathematics were incompatible.Hume in his mind understand that there were to many other things that effected us humans in just one minute to change what we perceive and understand. This is why mathematics or science could not explain how we humans gain knowledge. Instead Hume wanted to study his understanding looking towards the things that effected him in daily life. Hume thinks that the mind has two perceptions of the concept of understanding. One is the ideas category were we humans actulkay come up with a thought or idea of our own. Impressions are the seco...

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