...Of Personal Identity in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature, maintains that the notion of self \s Nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions,...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and arc in perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions....

...any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception." A person, he says, is: "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement". By this doctrine he banished "substance"...

...course, does not mean that there is absolutely no self. Hume himself offers an alternative: the self is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different...each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perceptual flux and movement."43 Accordingly, the self is not something unchangeable, but rather something...

...See section 6 of book 1 of the Treatise, "Of Personal Identity," where Hume declares that humans "are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions,...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and arc in a perpetual tlux and movement." He goes on to argue that, given the absence of a lasting impression...

...fragmentation. Two centuries ago Hume wrote: ... I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions,...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and we are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our...

...various sensations, not something distinct that was having the sensation. A self therefore amounted to "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."1 A contemporary writer, David Jenkins,...

...aside some metaphysicians of this kind, 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 inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . There is properly no simplicity...

...without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. (P. 252) What we call the self is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different...each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement" (ibid). The "self turns out to be the name we give to a bundle of associations....

...Hume. Because on the most natural reading of the 'which' in the first passage quoted ('that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions,...each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement.' [page 252]), its referent is the perceptions, and because of Hume's failure...

...famously remarked in his 1739 Treatise on Human Nature, "I may venture to affirm of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions,...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, in a perpetual flux and movement." (I, iv, 6) This was a theme pursued by the French philosopher Condillac...