Some help with Empiricism and Subjectivity
Part One, page 24 on this edition: Deleuze, Gilles. Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of Human Nature. Translated by Constantin V. Boundas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
The last paragraph where he discusses "principles" and "nature"; what's the difference between "principles" and "nature" here? Cuz I usually took them to mean the same thing.
Plus, earlier in the same chapter, he "affirms the identity between the mind, the imagination, and ideas", but then he proceeds to make some distinctions between them, particularly when he says that "principles refer to the mind which they affect, but nature refers to the imagination."
So what am I missing here?
Another thing that caught my attention, reading this after Bergsonism, is the fact that I feel like Hume was doing a "retrograde movement of the true" when he took the mind to be "non-system/a collection/delirium" which in turn must become a "system, organized"; cuz I believe that (from an embedded+embodied cognition pov) an infant is still a system, though lacking a sense of self; it is being in-formed within a context, within certain restraints which distinguishes it as a distinct system. The very fallacy of order/chaos that Bergson also referred to. What do you think about it?
Lots of thanks in advance!