...of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure (ie something merely phenomenal). I never can catch myself at any time without a perception,...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,...

...ego which now recalls it? This truth has been extensively overlooked or denied. Thus Hume says : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call mytelf I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love...

...things as the soul and its powers are ever perceived to be. Hume, in his usual pleasant wa}-, says : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...perception. . . . If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflectien, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can no longer reason with...

...consciousness cognizes the operation only, and nothing besides. Thus Hume says: "For my part, wheft t enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, oi heal or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any...

...impresses, and we are at once in the region of existences, internal and external. "I never," he says, "catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception." His very language contradicts itself. He talks of catching himself, what is this self that he catches...

...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...any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my perceptions are remov'd for any time, as by sound sleep ; so...

...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...pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any tinre without a perception, and _neyer. can qB'scfve'ahy thingjbut the perception. When my perceptions...

...pre-condition. -. Hume's Denial of Self-consciousness. David Hume (1711-1776), the Scotch skeptic, says: " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hate, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe...

...particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hate, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . One may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued that he calls himself, though I am...

...thing as knowledge of the pure Ego existing destitute of a particular experience. Hume truly says,* " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception." And Calderwood conclusively retorts, t " It is enough to know oneself as exercising personal power." This...