David Hume · Philosophy

The Bundle of Perceptions

When Hume looks inward for the self, he finds no enduring ‘I’ - only a stream of fleeting perceptions. The self, he argues, is not a substance but a bundle of perceptions, bound together by memory and resemblance.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Hume could find no impression of an enduring self, concluding that the self is not a substance but a ‘bundle of perceptions’ in constant flux, unified only by memory and resemblance. Explain his argument.

Leads to Thomas Reid.

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