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Impressions = experiences perception of self. Many people have presupposed perceptions of self. Many consider Hume to be archaic. 17th century worldview presupposes science and science's worldview of understanding nature. Wood has a view of nature as mechanistic, Hume shares Wood's view. With Hume it's presupposed. People often jump to Wood's presuppositions without questioning his initial reasoning. Science is essentially mathematics applied to nature. Ledger Wood says everything is mechanistic; man is just a cog in nature's mechanism. Hume buys into the same view of nature. Too many people see nature as mechanistic, although nature is a mechanism. This is the modern/mechanistic world view. People see the uniformities in nature

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