Hume claims that empirical evidence and the principle of custom are necessary for the understanding to generate beliefs. Fictions, in contrast, are generated by the imagination, and the imagination cannot produce beliefs. As Hume puts it: "The imagination has the command over all its ideas, and can join and mix and vary them, in all the ways possible. It may conceive fictitious objects with all the circumstances of place and time. It may set them, in a manner, before our eyes, in their true colours, just as they might have existed. But is impossible that this faculty of imagination can ever, of itself, reach belief." Which of the following best describes how we can distinguish beliefs from fictions, according to Hume?
1) We can distinguish beliefs from fictions by applying the Principle of Non-Contradiction, because according to Hume, only fictions represent something that is logically impossible.
2) We can distinguish beliefs from fictions based on feeling, or sentiment, because according to Hume, only beliefs are accompanied by strong and firm feelings, which the human understanding cannot control.
3) We can distinguish beliefs from fictions based on feeling, or sentiment, because according to Hume, only fictions are accompanied by feelings.