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ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing How One Passage Supports Another 1 Views
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What information does the excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding add to the discussion of the association of ideas in The Science of Human Nature? Drawing from both passages, use three details to support your answer.
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Okay See reading shmoop er's last of the ten siri's
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here on the brain courtesy of your buddy in mind
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william henry pile Let's get down to it Think about
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the proceeding passage As you read the following excerpt it
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is evident that there was a principle of connection between
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the different thoughts or ideas of the mine and that
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in their appearance through the memory or imagination they introduced
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each other with a certain degree of method and regularity
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even in our wildest and most wandering reveries Nay in
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our very dreams we shall find if we reflect that
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the imagination ran not altogether at adventures but that there
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was still a connection upheld among the different ideas which
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succeeded each other or the loosest and freest conversation to
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be transcribed there would immediately be observed something which connected
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it in all its transitions or where this is wanting
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The person who broke the threat of discourse might still
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inform you that there had secretly revolved in his mind
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a succession of thought which had gradually led him from
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the subject of conversation Now it's from an inquiry concerning
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human understanding by david hume Okay question what information does
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the excerpt from an inquiry concerning human understanding Add to
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the discussion of the association of ideas in the science
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of human nature Drawing from both passages Use three details
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to support your answer All right so let's think about
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this The author of the science of human nature describes
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thie association of ideas by doing an experiment with words
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using the example of the word horse and the ideas
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it conjures in his mind The author argues that experiences
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shaped the way ideas are joined together in memory and
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inquiry concerning human understanding explores similar ideas but also considers
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how the association of ideas works in imagination and conversation
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The author argues that there is a succession of thought
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that connects all the ideas in a wandering imagination or
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a free and loose conversation Well the next time we
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get hassled for spacing out in class we're just going
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to say that we're deeply involved in a succession of
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thought If that doesn't convince anyone well there's always the
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old jet i mind trick This is not the student
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you're looking for Both of the authors of these passages
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discuss the ways that ideas become connected Other words however
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the science of human nature focuses on awards in the
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authors experiment while an inquiry concerning human understanding addresses the
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way the process works in imagination and conversations That kind
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of length but not directly got it Well the full
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score three points You got to make some quotes and
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citations and demonstrate how the excerpts points relate to the
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larger discussion in both pastures And we hope we did
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that So just write down a three Their teacher you 00:02:42.645 --> [endTime] know Thank you Bye
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