...distinct existences." " What we call mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different impressions united together by certain relations, and supposed,...be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." He gives the same account of what we call matter. He shews that, having nothing but impressions, we...

...words are: 'What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions or objects united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with perfect simplicity and identity. If any one, upon serious and candid reflection, thinks he has a different...

...he denies) acting like a copying machine ; and when we come to learn what this Mind is, we find it is ' nothing but a heap or collection of different...relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with perfect simplicity and identity.'* What should we say to a philosopher who asserted that a locomotive...

...seeing, and feeling, and perceiving. As to the first question ; we may observe, that what we call a mind, is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity. Now as every perception...

...existence and an object of knowledge, it could not be made known to others." . . . . " What we call a mind, is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions,...be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, Part IV. sect. 2. —" 'Tis confessed by the most judicious philosophers,...

...distinct existences." " What we call mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different impressions united together by certain relations, and supposed,...be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." He gives the same account of what we call matter. He shows that having nothing but impressions, we...

...; all ideas are anthropomorphic. (6) Mind or soul is but " a heap or collection of different perc. united together by certain relations, and supposed,...be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." (i. iv. 2). We have neither idea nor impression of self, of soul. The materiality or immateriality...

...of musical notes. Hume, indeed, goes further than others when he says that— " What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions,...be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." — (I. p. 268.) "With this "nothing "but," however, he obviously falls into the primal and perennial...

...mind according to this new philosophy? Hume has his answer ready. ' What we call a mind,' he writes, ' is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity V So, again, he describes...

...mind according to this new philosophy? Hume has his answer ready. ' What we call a mind,' he writes, ' is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity1.' So, again, he describes...