Sentence examples for simple impression from inspiring English sources

Because the formation of every simple idea is always preceded by the experience of a corresponding simple impression, and because the experience of every simple impression is always followed by the formation of a corresponding simple idea, it follows, according to Hume, that simple impressions are the causes of their corresponding simple ideas.

It is noteworthy that, according to Hume, for every simple impression there is a simple idea that corresponds to it and differs from it only in force and vivacity, and vice versa.

Goodwin presents many of these disagreements as she goes along, but, because her focus is so powerfully on people and their relationships as motivating forces of history, she leaves the too simple impression that all one needs to know about the Progressives is that they pushed back against big business.

Beauty is a feeling of approbation, and an original, simple impression of the mind.

But he is so confident the correspondence holds that he challenges anyone who doubts it to produce an example of a simple impression without a corresponding simple idea, or a simple idea without a corresponding simple impression.

The explanation of the content of the idea of that table thus concerns the contents of your simple impression of the corresponding physical table.

Early on, Dow produced eloquently simple impressions of his New England environment, like "Pine Tree" (1895), a cyanotype, or blue contact print, that closes in on the spreading branches of an immense fir standing in a flat landscape of lights and darks.

Complex impressions are made up of a group of simple impressions.

He argues first that there is a one to one correspondence between simple ideas and simple impressions.

Finally, he argues that experience tells us that simple impressions always precede and thus cause their corresponding ideas.

Its color and smell are simple impressions, which can't be broken down further because they have no component parts.