...existence. After what manner, therefore, do they belong to self; and how are they connected with it ? For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch mysilf at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my...

...He states this with great distinctness in an often-quoted passage of the Treatise on Human Nature. "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...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."...

...enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain...without a perception, and never can observe anything brut the perception." Starting out from metaphysical speculations, Spinoza, whose theory, it must be...

...following passage from Hume, in which he proclaims the reduction of the self to a flux of impressions: " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without ^/^v^ ^ a perception, and never can observe anything but the per- c < "*!" ception. . . . If any one,...

...detcrininist school in modern times) says (Treatise on Human Nature, Book I., Part IV., section vi.) : "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure" ; and he consequently concludes that the self or personality is "nothing but a bundle or collection...

...following passage from Hume, in which he proclaims the reduction of the self to a flux of impressions : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I al ways stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred,...

...phenomena ; and I am not aware that any reply has been given to the following just remarks of Hume : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...perception. If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflexion, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with...

...famous paragraph concerning the impossibility of there being any such thing as a distinct self: — " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...and never can observe anything but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep, so long am I insensible of myself,...

...famous paragraph concerning the impossibility of there being any such thing as a distinct self: — " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myielf at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. When my...

...experience, may be admitted to elude psychological observation. As Hume says : " I never can catch myself fA any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception" — ie, it is the empirical ego, or mind with its content of experience, which is the object of psychological...