David Hume : Impressions and Ideas : Like other empiricists,Hume also accepts that experience is he only source of knowledge.According to him, there are only two sources of knowledge : impressions and ideas.Hume used this word impression for the first time,for experience.The only difference between impressions and ideas is their intensity and distinctness.As he has written in the Treatise : “All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds,which I shall call impressions and ideas.The difference between these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness,with which they strike upon the mind,and make their way into our thought or consciousness.”1 Whatever was sensation and reflection in Locke,is impression in Hume’s philosophy.We receive impressions,through both internal and external organs.Through external organs we receive the impressions of touch ,taste smell,sound and beauty while through mind which is the internal organ,we receive impress...