Although this amount of knowledge helps us, it does not amount as much as Descartes knowledge. ... Descartes feels that we can have all the impressions of the world that we want, yet it does not prove that there is actually anything out there. Descartes has a lot of arguments for his knowledge and he even covers the counter arguments of his points. Reason just does not achieve as much as Descartes knowledge. Hume uses the term perceptions to describe these things that we are aware of while Descartes uses the term idea. ...

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