...ego which now recalls it? This truth has been extensively overlooked or denied. Thus Hume says : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."...

...phenomena ; and I am not aware that any reply has been given to the following just remarks of Hume: "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...and never can observe anything but the perception. If anyone, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I...

...or from any other, that the idea of self is derived ; and consequently there is no such idea. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."2 In this Hume was perfectly right. But he searches in the wrong place. The nature of the...

...or from any other, that the idea of self is derived ; and consequently there is no such idea. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...myself, I always stumble on some particular perception J or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself...

...self, indeed that other ideas always place themselves in our way when we seek to contemplate self. " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and 1 Human Nature, Book I., Part IV., sect. 6. never can observe anything but the perception." Moreover,...

...Unknowable. of what we call onr self ; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other. ... I can never observe anythinfl but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time,...

...or from any other, that the idea of self is derived ; and consequently there is no such idea. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception1 or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can...

...perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."1 "We are conscious," writes Stewart in a similar strain, " of sensation, thought, desire,...

...I enter most intimately into what is called myself, I always stumble on some particular perception of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain...any time without a perception, and never can observe anytbing but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep, so long...

...that all substance is impossible, was the essence of Hume's scepticism. ' For my part,' he argues, ' when I enter most intimately into what I call myself I always stumble on some particular perception orother. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception. We only ' feign the continued existence...