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>From Mildred Ferentino:

What never was seen, or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is anything beyond the power of thought except what implies an absolute contradiction.

>rm says: This is a relevant quote from Hume, but I'd like to see your explanations, rather.

>From eddie:

We cannot concieve the unknown. Meaning we can not concieve things or objects that don't exist or is never experienced by us. We can imagine things but it leads to contradiction.

>rm says: It's right to focus on contradiction, but not in this way. Hume does say that we can imagine something we haven't experienced, but only in limited cases, like the missing shade of blue. Also, we can recombine ideas we have experienced to create new ideas of objects we haven't experienced.

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