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Hume introduces his intellectual faculties without any
arrangement or order. They may, however, be conveniently classed.

First Passive Faculties. I Those which operate without need of much
attention, or comparison, with on more than one object.
1 Perception – the source of all the other faculties
2 Memory – becomes active when attention is applied to it
3 Imagination – a passive quality for it is busy even in dreams – when active it becomes invention.
II Operating on two or more objects but still without need of much
attention
1 Judgment – as in the case of vision

Second. Faculties active = volitional
I Operating without need of the judgment, on more than one object.
1 Attention
2 Observation – which is attention applied to a particular object

Third – II Requiring the assistance of the judgment & the presence of more than
one object
1 Abstraction
2 Analysis
3 Synthesis or combination
4 Comparison
5 Generalization
6 Deduction

Fourth III. Requiring the presence of two or more of the active volitional faculties
and of two or more objects.
1 Distribution
2 Methodization

Invention is performed by the use of the other faculties, including attention in
an intense degree under the direction of the judgment & having for its object
the discovery of some new fact, the production of some new effort, or the
formation of some new combination of ideas.

Communication, with which Hume closes his list seems to have no right to
be classed among the intellectual faculties.

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