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" 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 an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. "
An Essay on the Nature and Immuntability of Truth: In Opposition to ... - Page 171
by James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 371 pages
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The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics ...

Mary Whiton Calkins - Metaphysics - 1910 - 618 pages
...principle in me." Hume concludes, accordingly, that "setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind," he may venture "to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity.and areina perpetual flux and movement."1 "What we call a mind," he says...
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The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the ...

Rudolf Eucken - Ethics - 1910 - 616 pages
...perception. They are merely the products and supports of our perception. The soul, for instance, 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 perceptions are not copies...
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Body and Mind: A History and a Defense of Animism

William McDougall - Animism - 1911 - 414 pages
...certain there is no such principle in me." " But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their...
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David Hume: hans liv og hans filosofi, Volume 1

Anton Thomsen - 1911 - 492 pages
...Bevidsthedstilstande er forskellige, og Bevidstheden er intet Andet end en Række skiftende Tilstande — „a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement".4) Vort „Jeg" i Betydning af...
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The Fundamentals of Psychology: A Brief Account of the Nature and ...

Benjamin Dumville - Educational psychology - 1912 - 420 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. " But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."1 In spite of this, each of us...
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English Thought for English Thinkers

St. George William Joseph Stock - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 246 pages
...unless we have an impression of self, and to suppose this is absurd. What a man calls himself 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." Let my perceptions be removed...
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Personality

Frank Byron Jevons - Existentialism - 1913 - 228 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...a bundle or collection of different perceptions." It will be observed that Hume says : " When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always...
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Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. " But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind...
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Philosophy: what is It?

Frank Byron Jevons - Philosophy - 1914 - 200 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that...but a bundle or collection of different perceptions. " Self, then, according to Hume and the Sensationalists, is a mere word: it stands for "nothing but...
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Pro Fide: A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion

Charles Harris - Apologetics - 1914 - 668 pages
...regular ways, it is true, but without any substantial link between them. "The soul," says Hume, "is nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable 164 HUME CRITICIZED rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot...
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