Hume and descartes on the theory of ideas

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Hume, on the other had, believed ideas came only from one thing, impressions Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses but I like Hume's theory better than Descartes. Descartes believed imagination could not help humans Descartes' definition of ideas was, only things which exist in the mind and represent other things are called ideasHis argument was the nature of the ideas which make up the mind could gain an idea about God, but instead, humans could think about God by other means A major strength of Descartes was his idea of objective reality, which is one's perception of reality If something accurately represents something, then it is objective reality, according to him