 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...some philosophers, who imagine we arc every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self ' i that we feel its existence and its continuance in...existence ; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a Of the demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simpliKeptical and . . . . other city. The strongest... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 470 pages
...nothing from them, but that every thing remains precisely as before. SECTION VI. OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view,... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1872 - 356 pages
...addition of Leibnitz, ' except the Intellect itself,' for he granted mental existence. HUME denied ' that we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our Self, and maintained that we are only ' a bundle of perceptions.' — Treatise on Human Nature (1739), 1.... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...but that every thing remains precisely as be- the soul*. fore. SECT. VI. — Of Personal Identity. There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view,... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...but that every thing remains precisely as be-i the soul. fore. SECT. VI. — Of Personal Identity . There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, , the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 1874 - 432 pages
...against the fact asserted. "There are some philosophers," he writes (Treatise, BI, Part iv., Sect. 6), "who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . " Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...against the fact asserted. "There are some philosophers," he writes (Treatise, BI, Part iv., Sect. 6), "who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . " Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1874 - 328 pages
...addition of Leibnitz, ' except the Intellect itself,' for he granted mental existence. HUME denied ' that we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our Self, and maintained that we are only ' a bundle of perceptions.' — Treatise on Human Nature (1739), i.... | |
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THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity... 
