Hume- ideas & impressions Dotto

I found Hume's theory of ideas vs. impressions to be pretty interesting, yet somewhat obvious. Hume defines ideas as the least vivid copies of impressions. They are merely figments of our imagination and are sketches of reality at best. He then defines impressions as the most vivd experiences that include emotion and result from sensation and stimuli.

a simpler way of putting his theories is by defining it as thoughts vs. experiences. The thoughts (ideas) that we have are only known to us and are usually much more difficult to remember because they are much less formed to begin with and don't include physical sensation, thus making it even more difficult to remember. The experiences (impressions) we have were retained from real world experiences and sensations providing much more vivid images and information, which results in an easier mode of remembrance.