...self or personality is "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." Mill also accepted this view. See his Examination of Sir W. Hamilton, chap. xii. For criticisms of...

...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. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable...

...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." — A Treatise of Human Nature, vol. i., pt. iv., sec. vi. This, of course, cancels the reality of...

...Hume asserts that it is "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. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable...

...Hence he concludes that the rest of mankind are " but a bundle of different conceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." In other words, the identity which we ascribe to mind is as purely fictitious as Berkeley had proved...

...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. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance;...

...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.« (S. 198, Z. 3 f.) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Ausgewählte Schriften, herausgegeben von Eugen Reiche!,...

...basis of certainty, became for Hume " nothing but a bundle of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." It may be well to quote this classic passage. " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...

...Identity.— It the self is "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,"4 it may be asked, How does the idea of personal identity arise ? Personal identity, Hume...

...spreekt, dan is het niets meer dan „a bundie or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" 2). Deze voorstellingen zijn met elkaar verbonden volgens bepaalde wetten van opeenvolging en coexistentie,...