This author of A Treatise of Human Nature refuted his own argument by demonstrating our ability to imagine a "missing shade of blue."
This philosopher claimed that intentional actions are the products of emotions, rather than of reason, in the section "On the Passions." He distinguished between a priori "relations of ideas" and a posteriori "matters of fact", which must be disproved with evidence rather than logic. He argued that our minds combine simple ideas together to understand complex ideas, an idea known as his "copy principle." This author of A Treatise of Human Nature refuted his own argument by demonstrating our ability to imagine a "missing shade of blue." For 10 points, identify this Scottish empiricist author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
This philosopher claimed that intentional actions are the products of emotions, rather than of reason, in the section "On the Passions."
David Hume