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

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...rapidity, and 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...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,...

...philosophy, Sect. VI. Of personal identity, Vol. I, p. 438 f. (der ersten englischen Ausgabe, London 1739): »For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...and never can observe anything but the perception. When my perceptions are remov'd for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself,...

...encountered difficulty with the subject. "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself" he noted, "I always stumble on some particular perception or...perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."59 Existential skepticism turned into existential crisis in the modern period, as thinkers...