The problem of the induction fallacy follows that no assumptions can be made about future events simply because they happened to take place in the past. You can not state that all swans are white because that is all you've encoured as you might just cross one of a different colour (Imagine how silly they felt when a black swan was discovered). This is a problem for scientific theory as science claims that one can draw conclusions about an event if it can be reproduced repeatedly.
The Treatise of Human nature is divided into three books, dealing effectively with The Understanding, The Passions, and The ideas. He stated the distinction between two kinds of perceptions; the impressions and the ideas, impressions being more forceful and violent than the fainter notion of ideas. According to him, simple ideas have simple impressions as the former are derived from the latter. Complex ideas however, need not resemble impressions, as their contents instead are derived from a mixture of impressions.
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