...(Source: David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888, 251-263, 645-662.) There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view,...

...know a perceiver."82 Nolan Jacobson notes that Hume talks in almost identical tones when the latter says: There are some philosophers, who imagine we...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular...

...almost identical tones when the latter says: There are some philosophers, who imagine we are everv moment intimately conscious of what we call our self,...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity, . . . For my part, when 1 enter most intimately into what 1 call myself, 1 always stumble on some particular...

..."Of Personal Identity," in a sentence that ought to cue us as to the section's polemical intentions: "There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity" (T 251). In case we fail to recognize these philosophers as Cartesians, Hume spells it out in his helpful...

...with regard to selfidentity was brought to its conclusion, predictably, by David Hume, who argued: There are some philosophers who imagine we are every...intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we teel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration,...

...mainstream. David Hume is perhaps most responsible for the present consensus, with his famous attack on "some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our Self" (Treatise I.iv.6, p. 251). Hume's own view is that "I never can catch myself at any time without a...

...Nidditch, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978, 251 sqq. a. 633 sqq. D. Hume, Treatise... B. I, P. IV, eh. 6, 251: „There are some philosophers, who imagine, we are...moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF... Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded for...

...two sorts of personal identity into relation with one another' (p. 79). some philosophers, who . . . are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.22 So the scepticism of this section has a limited scope. The refutation is guided by the...

...understanding of the nature of people: myself or others. 1 "There are some philosophers," wrote Hume, "who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity" 2 —and there is no need to take up a position on that. To believe that I understand myself is definitely...

...'common sense' philosophy. In a well-known passage in A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume asserts that There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity . . . Unluckily all these...