...propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions...of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (1.4.6)120 When we reflect on a succession of related...

...natural propension we have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions...notion of the place where these scenes are represented or of the materials of which it is composed.'2 What, then, causes our propensity to attribute identity...

...variety of postures and situations.. . . The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind;...of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd" (Hume, Treatise, 253). Gregory Bateson explains the function...

...appearance" (p. 253). In this context Hume immediately appends a warning: "The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind" (p. 253). Well and good, but spectatorial imagery occurs throughout the Treatise and often seems essential...

...which we can have knowledge; that is, so far as we know, the mind does not even existl Rather, there 'are the successive perceptions only, that constitute...most distant notion of the place, where these scenes arc represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd' (Ibid.: 253). With these philosophical...

...comparison of the theater must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is composed." 4. A 1963 study found that people were as likely to...

...even the analogy with the theatre goes too far, that it could be misleading, since we have not even "the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, or of the materials of which it is composed."7 Only the slightest radical ization would be required...

...different; whatever natural propension we may have to ünagine that simplicity and identity. [...] They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute...of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (T 252f.) Nachdem für Hume klar ist, daß wir kein Selbst...

...different; whatever natural propension we may have to ünagine that simplicity and identity. [...] They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute...of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (T 252f.) Nachdem für Hume klar ist, daß wir kein Selbst...

...a play without a stage, a flux of perceptions. "The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd."4 The place is not different from what takes place in...