 | Herbert James Paton - Philosophy - 2002 - 416 pages
...into the language of sense-data and images. In the more metaphysical language of Hume a mind can be 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement". Some of us may doubt whether... | |
 | Aglaja Frodl - Authors, English - 2004 - 296 pages
...consequently there is no such idea.76 l may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a 72 Locke, "Of Identity", 335 definiert Person: "[A] thinking... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...perceptions, from which coherent identity is only an enabling fiction constructed by memory. Men are 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement', he affirms. Then his metaphor... | |
 | Graham Bartram - Drama - 2004 - 326 pages
...returned to the empiricist scepticism about the self expressed in 1739 by David Hume, who called it 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement'.1 In a book whose findings... | |
 | Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker - Religion - 2004 - 406 pages
...catch myself at any time without perception and never can observe anything but the perception. ... I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
 | Otto Weininger - Philosophy - 2005 - 504 pages
...He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continu'd, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside...venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
 | Robert M. Burns - Historiography - 2006 - 466 pages
...He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside...venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable... | |
 | John Orr - Fiction - 2005 - 220 pages
...metaphysicians, for sure, will falsely fabricate the unity of their mind, yet the rest of us mere mortals 'are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement' (2000: 165). The idea of... | |
 | Christian Emden - Philosophy - 2005 - 252 pages
...incommensurable "impressions"—that is, ideas, associations, and perceptions. Our selves, he remarks, "are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind is a kind... | |
 | Lothar Fietz - 2005 - 260 pages
...any other, that the idea of self is deriv'd; and consequently there is no such idea. [...] [Men] are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity [...]. (Hume, 25 If.) It is owing to that "inconceivable rapidity" and... | |
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. 
