...Hume's Denial of Self-consciousness. David Hume (1711-1776), the Scotch skeptic, says : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hate, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe...

...thing as knowledge of the pure Ego existing destitute of a particular experience. Hume truly says,* " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception." And Calderwood conclusively retorts, t " It is enough to know oneself as exercising personal power." This...

...sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time. . . . For my part, when I enter moat intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble...sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think,...

...now recalls it? This truth has been extensively overlooked or denied. Thus Hume says : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."...

...After what manner, therefore, do they belong to self; and how are they connected with it ? For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never_can_£atch-niyae// at any time without a perception, and never can obsfiry.fi_any thing but~tfre...

...particular perception or other ; I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and can never observe anything but the perception. When my perceptions...sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may be truly said not to exist. . . . Setting aside some metaphysicians, I may venture to affirm of the...

...and I am not aware that any reply has been given to the following just remarks of Hume: "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...and never can observe anything but the perception. If anyone, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I...

...other, that the idea of self is derived ; and consequently there is no such idea. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."2 In this Hume was perfectly right. But he searches in the wrong place. The nature of the...

...other, that the idea of self is derived ; and consequently there is no such idea. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception J or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself...

...self, indeed that other ideas always place themselves in our way when we seek to contemplate self. " I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and 1 Human Nature, Book I., Part IV., sect. 6. never can observe anything but the perception." Moreover,...