 It must be some one impression, that gives rise to every real idea. But 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...  The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Page cviiiby Dugald Stewart - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Sabine Doyé, Marion Heinz, Udo Rameil, Holger Kaletha - 2004 - 420 pages
...Recent Views, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LIII, No. 4, 1993 As Hume famously notes, "But 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... | |
 | Charles Taliaferro - 2005 - 482 pages
...must necessarially 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.12 Hume instead characterized himself and other persons in terms of bundles... | |
 | Alasdair C. MacIntyre - 2006 - 220 pages
...(I, iv, 6, p. 251). But, Hume asks, "from what impression could this idea be deriv'd?" He answers, "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" (p. 251). And once again imagination is called upon to supply what is... | |
 | Nicholas Churchich - 2005 - 540 pages
...the beast. There is no such thing as a person or personal identity. 'Self or person', he indicates, 'is not any one impression but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference'.55 When philosophers speak of human personality, they usually have in mind its moral, psychological,... | |
 | Ingolf U. Dalferth, Philipp Stoellger - 2005 - 708 pages
...berühmte Passage aus Humes >Treatise on Human Nature<: Hume fragt nach dem Selbst oder der Person als »that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference«, findet aber: »For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble... | |
 | Alasdair C. MacIntyre - 2007 - 212 pages
...(I, iv, 6, p. 251). But, Hume asks, "from what impression could this idea be deriv'd?" He answers, "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" (p. 251). And once again imagination is called upon to supply what is... | |
 | William James - 2007 - 709 pages
...which is pleaded for them, nor have we any idea of Self, after the manner it is here explained. ... It must be some one impression that gives rise to every real idea. ... If any impression gives rise to the idea of Self, that impression must continue invariably the... | |
 | Barbara Darling-Smith - 2007 - 228 pages
...namely, David Hume. I begin with a glance at Hume's empiricism. Ideas are derived from impressions. Since "it must be some one impression, that gives rise to every real idea" (251), to test the veracity of any idea the question is simple: "from what impression cou'd this idea... | |
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