When hearing a sound in S2, you do not hallucinate the sound of a collision, since you can hear a sound without there being a collision (as when listening to music played by loudspeakers).
Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.
thought experiment(The sage's rhetorical device comprising two hypothetical situations about the ruler of India.)
A hypothetical scenario constructed to test what would count as sufficient grounds for a conclusion, here used by the sage to probe the epistemic standards for belief in God.
(1) The premise is false since you cannot see a red cube without that there is something, a real thing, that is the bearer of the visual features that usually a red cube has. When it seems to you that you are seeing a red cube without that there actually is a red cube, it is because you are hallucinating it: there is nothing that instantiates the visual features of a real red cube. Can we apply the same reasoning to audition in order to claim that the premise is false concerning auditory appeara