MASCARENHAS, Rogério Soares. O estatuto da imaginação na teoria das paixões de Hume. Argumentos Revista de Filosofia, Fortaleza, v. 1, n. 2, p. 54-60, 2010.A more attentive reading of the pages that compose books II and III of the Treatise of human nature disclose innumerable instinctive processes of the imagination operating freely in the production of good part of our passions. They could be reduced to the imaginative propensity of transfigure, in some way, the experience. It´s what takes place, for example, when we anticipate regularities observed between the phenomena and conceive a bigger regularity that the evidenced in past observations. This betrayal of the experience for the imagination will reflect in the production of some ...