...problems which since his time are the main problems of psychology, ethics, and metaphysics. " 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,...

...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,...any, time without a perception, and never can observe anythingbut the perception. When my perceptions are removed for! any time, as by sound sleep, so long...

...discern anything save different, distinguishable, and separate perceptions. " For my part," he says, " when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...and never can observe anything but the perception." That he can never catch himself without a perception is true enough ; but — that he is never cognisant...

...persistent, and confident attack of negative opinion. So much must be put to its credit. Hume writes : " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception,...and never can observe anything but the perception." l How could Hume catch himself when he was trying to catch something else ? He looked in sensations...

...intimately," he says, " into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular conception or other. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception,...and never can observe anything but the perception." Hence he concludes that the rest of mankind are " but a bundle of different conceptions which succeed...

...persistent, and confident attack of negative opinion. So much must be put to its credit. Hume writes : " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception,...and never can observe anything but the perception." 1 How could Hume catch himself when he was trying to catch something else ? He looked in sensations...

...he has boldly ventured to deny his having any consciousness of a self. " For my part," he writes, " when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular conception or other — of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never...

...are in a perpetual flux and movement." It may be well to quote this classic passage. " 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. . . . Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions....

...philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...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....

...capable of happiness or misery. . . ."" Whereas in "The Treatise of Human Nature" Hume asserts that "when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure."14 For Locke the self is "that conscious thinking thing" which disciplines sensation; reason...