...ask him by what right he speaks of an ' act of the mind ' 8 when he also maintains that the mind is nothing but ' a bundle or collection of different...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement ' ? 4 We might ask, again, where we have this perception of material*...

...verschiedener Wahrnehmungen und Vorstellungen.37^ Der Mensch ist für Hume nichts anderes als eine "collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement".371 Die Verbindung zwischen den fragmentierten Vorstellungen...

...simple and continu'd, which he calls himself, tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions....

...impressions, or from any other, that the idea of self is derived; and consequently there is no such idea.76 l may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a 72 Locke, "Of Identity", 335 definiert Person: "[A] thinking intelligent Being, that has reason...

...principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind (who believe they have a soul), I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."* "But," said I, "you tell me you...

...aside some metaphysicians of this kind', — that is, who feel and believe, that they have a soul, — 'I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. — There is properly no simplicity...

...catch itself at any time without perception and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . It may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...but a bundle or collection of different perceptions. . . . Here, it seems that if Hume's argument is to make sense at all, the bundle, which is mistakenly...

...fugitive perceptions, from which coherent identity is only an enabling fiction constructed by memory. Men are 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement', he affirms. Then his metaphor shifts to performance, the mind...

...category which in this context was the supposed basis of the self) and arguing instead that 'mankind . . . are nothing but a bundle or collection of different...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement'. There is not, he adds, 'any single power of the soul which remains...

...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,...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement'.1 In a book whose findings were widely popularised, Ernst Mach...