Association of Ideas

The mind connects ideas through resemblance, contiguity, and causation, which governs the flow of thought and underpins both reasoning and the passions.

The principles of resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect govern the connection of ideas.

The chapter outlines the principles of association—resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect—that connect ideas.

The liberty of imagination to transpose ideas is based on the separability of impressions, a key principle in Hume's associationist framework.

Hume identifies three principles of association—resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect—that guide the imagination's connection of simple ideas.