In another of his books, he distinguished between impressions and ideas by using the example of a man who has experienced all colors except for a "missing shade of blue."
This thinker's formulation of the problem of evil includes the metaphor of an architect whose design for a house subjects its residents to "noise, confusion, fatigue, [and] darkness." He proposed that people understand necessary connections because of the "constant conjugation" of cause and effect through time. This thinker put forth metaphors of "vegetation" and "generation" as alternatives to analogizing the universe to a machine in a work in which Philo ("FIE-low") refutes the design argument made by Cleanthes (klee-ANN-theez). In another of his books, he distinguished between impressions and ideas by using the example of a man who has experienced all colors except for a "missing shade of blue." For 10 points, who wrote Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding?
This thinker's formulation of the problem of evil includes the metaphor of an architect whose design for a house subjects its residents to "noise, confusion, fatigue, [and] darkness."
David Hume