...altogether overlooked. Critics generally quote the famous passage from the Treatise to the effect that "when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...always stumble on some particular perception or other." From this passage they conclude that Hume denied the reality of the self. But he denied only that the...

...an idea be derived? No such impression is on the closest scrutiny of sensory experience to be found. "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...stumble on some particular perception or other, of hot or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time...

...spiritual substance, was quite as impossible as the notion of an external material substance. For, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stomble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain...

...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 I call mvse/J r , I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade,...

...der Ihrer Kritik entspricht. Wenn ich Book I, Sect VI, Of personal identity aufschlage und dort lese: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other ... I never can catch myself ... usw bis zum Schluss des Absatzes. Wer so denkt, ist mit einemmal das...

...certain amount of appeal, it appears to have been soundly refuted many years ago by Hume. Hume wrote: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...I call myself, I always stumble on some particular impression or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can...

...tried to introspect the self, to find it in his own experience. The following is his reported result: "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...always stumble on some particular perception or other. ... I never catch myself at any time without a perception. ... I am certain there is no such principle...

...can be found. What is found, instead, is simple discrete perceptions. In Hume's words (1959, p. 239), "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other ... I never catch myself at any time without a perception, and can never observe anything but the perception"...

...character of the ego. b. David Hume (1711-1776), in keeping with the Buddhist position, wrote: (332) "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other. . . . [Another person] may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued, which he calls himself;...

...notion of self-identity could not help paying their tribute to him. When Hume, for example, writes that "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other," 49 he still resorts to a philosophically potent metaphor, ie, that of a chamber so dark that, although...