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Abstract The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a renewed interest in exploring the nature of the human cognitive instrument-that is, in understanding the human understanding. Many thinkers proposed that such understanding of under standing would prove essential to refining scientific method, improving the state of human knowledge, and fostering human progress. Hume was one of these thinkers. Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature is entitled “Of the Understanding.” At the very outset of his attempt to explain the nature of the understanding, he presents four crucial distinctions.
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