All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section II, Of the Origin of Ideas
1748
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