Describe Hume's three laws of association that influence our thoughts.
What will be an ideal response?
According to Hume, the three laws of association that influence our thoughts are the
law of resemblance, the law of contiguity, and the law of cause and effect. The law of
resemblance states that our thoughts run easily from one idea to other similar ideas.
The law of contiguity states that when one thinks of an object, there is a tendency to
recall other objects that were experienced at the same time and place as the object
being pondered. Finally, the law of cause and effect states that when we think of an
outcome (effect), we tend to also think of the events that typically precede that
outcome
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