A thought on Hume

The short-coming of Hume’s arguments regarding human knowledge of the natural world lies in his confounding abstract concepts relating to properties of objects, such as taste and smell, with the objects themselves. The objects of human sense perception are not “things” which constitute integral aspects of objects; odour is not a part of an apple. Odour is the interpretation by the mind/brain of one possessing sense perception of physical properties of apples. The apple does not actually posses an “odour,” rather the apple’s cells stimulate the different sensory receptors in the nose, and those stimulations are interpreted by the human brain/mind as a sense perception called “smell.”