Hume's EpistemologyDavid Hume was a Scottish philosopher known for his ideas of skepticism and empiricism. Hume strove to better develop John Locke's idea of ​​empiricism using a scientific study of our own human nature. We cannot rely on common sense to illustrate human conduct without providing details on the subject. In other words, Hume is saying that since human beings actually live and function in this world, observation of how they do so is imminent. The main goal of philosophy is simply to explain and justify the reasoning for why we believe what we do. Hume is the creator of two different perceptions that reside in the human mind, ideas and impressions. According to Hume, impressions are most simply seen as the root of all ideas. “…all our most vivid perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or want.” (Cahn) We create our own ideas from impressions which, according to Hume, are "...less strong and living..." (Cahn) Ideas must come after an impression because "that which has never been seen or heard may yet to be designed.” (Cahn) So Hume's claim is that not all our ideas are like impressions, but that every idea depends on an impression. We can have an idea if and only if we have first had the impression from which the idea is perceived. All ideas and impressions do not come directly to our minds from the senses, but are composed of much smaller particles in the mind which are like copies of what comes from sense experience. Hume divides all the components of human reason into two different categories: relations of ideas and facts. The division of these two categories is defined as "Hume's fork", using the analogy "a fork in the road". “All objects of humanity...... middle of paper ......tion of what he really thinks. Just as we believe that the sun will rise and set every day we are outside this earth, our belief in this theory cannot be certain; faith in the same results must be present in the soul. Almost every aspect of Hume's ideas is composed of complex thoughts formed from simple ideas and impressions seen every day. “Beauty is not a quality in the things themselves: it exists simply in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. (Hume)WORKS CITEDMorris, William Edward. “David Hume.” Stanford University. Stanford University, February 26, 2001. Web. April 30, 2014. .Hume, David. An investigation into human understanding. Flight. XXXVII, Part 3. The Harvard Classics. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909-1914; Bartleby.com, 2001.