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Strengths and weaknesses for Hume's Empiricism?

I'm making a summary table of all the theory's that we have studied.

this is my summary, I hope its right.
Theory:
Hume’s empiricism (pg 250)
He believed that all of our concepts, Ideas and imaginings must be derived from impressions. And so he tried to trace concepts back to experience. And concept that cannot be traced back to experience are labelled and discarded as confusions.
Illustration:
God. The concept must have come from experiences of powerful, wise, all-loving people that we have encountered. And then imagining those qualities to be extended beyond limit. God is made in our image rather than the other way round


I need some weaknesses and strengths to the theory... I am a little stuck, any help?

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