 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - Philosophy - 1925 - 422 pages
...only a group of ' ' certain impressions which enter by the senses;" 3 and what we call our mind is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity." B The real essence of both external bodies and mind is utterly unknown;... | |
 | George Arthur Wilson - Philosophy - 1926 - 408 pages
...and may truly be said not to exist."1 A little farther on in the same section he says of individuals: "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,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1927 - 444 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. Our eyes cannot turn in their... | |
 | Charlie Dunbar Broad - Ontology - 1927 - 536 pages
...certain mental states are parts. The classical statement of this view is Hume's. "I may venture to affirm of. ..mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle...different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux or movement."1 This gives, of course, a very... | |
 | Buddhism - 1928 - 744 pages
...dass der Mensch nichts anderes sei als ein Bündel oder eine Sammlung verschiedener Wahrnehmungen, »a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement . . . nor is there any single power... | |
 | Joseph Evans - God - 1928 - 352 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.' Kant, who admitted that he had... | |
 | Shirley J. Nicholson - Religion - 2003 - 228 pages
...can observe anything but a perception" (Wilber, Spectrum of Consciousness 79). Hume concluded he was "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" (Goldstein and Kornfield 60).... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...Hume reworked Locke's ideas, reaching the unsettling conclusion that personal identity consisted of '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' (Treatise of Human Nature, 1739).... | |
 | Tim Milnes - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 294 pages
...Hume concludes that man is incapable of knowing himself as a unified being. He is, indeed, the sum of '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'.7" In this way, Hume's division,... | |
 | James Beattie - Philosophy, Scottish - 2004 - 216 pages
...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...perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. — There is properly no simplicity in the mind... | |
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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. 
