...self-possession. According to Hume, because all knowledge derives from sense impressions, and because "self or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference," what individuals think of as their selves or egos "are nothing but a...

...or substratum in which ideas somehow inhere. Hume characterizes the view he rejects in these terms: "[S]elf or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference" (A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 251). More generally, the bundle theory...

...absurdity is that the self construed as a perceiver or knower cannot itself be perceived because it is "that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference."12 That is, the self as epistemological agent could never be other than an agent. It could...

...invariableness and uninterruptedness of any object, thro' a supposed variation of time, (from THN 201) 2. It must be some one impression, that gives rise to every real idea, (from the Copy Principle) 3. There is no impression constant and invariable. 4. There is no such idea...

...which must necessarily be answer'd, if we cou'd have the idea of self pass for clear and intelligible. It must be some one impression, that gives rise to...that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference (Hume 1888: 251). If there is one idea of self, that is, there must be...

...which must necessarily be answer'd, if we wou'd have the idea of self pass for clear and intelligible. It must be some one impression, that gives rise to...that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference. If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must...

...philosophical writing. David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature insists on the fragmentariness of human identity: self or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference. If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must...

...self, after the manner it is here explained. For from what impression could this idea be derived?... It must be some one impression that gives rise to...impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference... For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular...

...self, after the manner it is here explain'd. For from what impression cou'd this idea be deriv'd? ... It must be some one impression, that gives rise to...that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference. If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must...

...because, unlike Butler and Reid, he shared Locke's sensationalist epistemology. Postulating that there "must be some one impression, that gives rise to every real idea," Hume argued that no such single impression could possibly be found to undergird the idea of a self....