An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Touch a hot stove, then remember touching it. The memory is real, but faint next to the burn. Every idea you have is built from weaker copies of things you once saw, heard or felt. A golden mountain is just gold joined to a mountain.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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