Hume divides the content of the mind into:
A) impressions and ideas.
B) necessary and contingent propositions.
C) reason and imagination.
D) knowledge and belief.
E) the empirical and the rational.

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Hume famously divides the content of the mind into two categories: impressions and ideas. Impressions are direct, vivid, and forceful mental experiences that come through the senses or from introspection (e.g. pain, pleasure, emotions). Ideas are fainter copies of impressions that come from memory, imagination, or other mental operations (e.g. concepts, beliefs, doubts). In Hume's empiricist theory of knowledge, all ideas ultimately derive from impressions, and our beliefs about the world are based on the associations we make between ideas.

Hume Divides the Content of the Mind Into