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I THINK it proper to inform the public, that though this is a third volume of the Treatise of Human Nature original: "Treatiſe of Human Nature"; this refers to David Hume's landmark philosophical work, it is in some measure independent of the other two. It does not require that the reader should enter into all the abstract reasonings contained in them. I am hopeful it may be understood by ordinary readers with as little attention as is usually given to any books of reasoning. It must only be observed that I continue to make use of the terms impressions and ideas Hume uses "impressions" to mean direct sensory experiences and "ideas" to mean the faint images of those experiences in thinking and reasoning in the same sense as formerly; and that by