...certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think,...

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

...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...

...I am conscious of being angry. Hume, in his chapter on Personal Identity, observes, " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...and never can observe anything but the perception." This is a good illustration of a futile and mistaken attempt to absorb self-consciousness in consciousness...

...es da nicht findet. I always stumble on some particidar perception or other, of heat or cold, lifjht or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never...without a perception, and never can observe anything Imt the perception, I 534. — Ja freilich, so wenig ich die Wogen des Meeres zerteilen kann, um den...

...goes on to state that unluckily his experience does not agree with these assertions. "For iny part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular percep4 tion or other, heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, » pain or pleasure. I never can...

...shift and change, the question arises what is meant by personal identity ? "For my part," says Hume, "when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may be truly said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and I could neither think,...