In A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume’s understanding knowledge as a system identifies three aspects: firstly, knowledge implies moving away from the idea of substance and abstract general ideas. Secondly, knowledge comprises the connection between impressions and ideas. The relation between our impressions and ideas arises from the principle of association which orders and reconfigures knowledge by virtue of the attraction, which is a connection articulated by the faculties of memory and imagination. Thirdly, knowledge is a system consisting of the repetition of habits and costumes configured by the principle of association from the integrated relation of impressions and ideas.
Martínez Zepeda, J. P. (2019). knowledge as system in David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Revista De Filosofía, 76, pp. 93–110. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/55776
