A Treatise of Human Nature - Volume 3 (1739) - Page 4

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T .

By impressions, I mean our stronger perceptions, such as our sensations, affections original: "affections"; in this context, it refers to emotions or mental states, and sentiments; and by ideas, I mean the fainter perceptions, or the copies of these in the memory and imagination.

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