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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. "
The History of the Works of the Learned ... - Page 399
1739
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An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry ...

James Beattie - Truth - 1771 - 588 pages
...are nothing but a " bundle or collection of different percep" tions, which fucceed each other with " inconceivable rapidity, and are* in a " perpetual flux and movement. — There ** is properly no fimplicity in the mind at " one time, nor identity in different "• [times], whatever...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of ..., Volume 1

James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...mankind — I use his own words — to " a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." " There is properly no simplicity in the mind at one time ; nor identity in it at different times ; whatever natural...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...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. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without vOL. i. x varying our perceptions. Our thought is still...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 10

Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...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. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ;...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...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. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...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. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable...
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The Metaphysics of the School: Book 4. Principles of being; Book 5. Causes ...

Thomas Harper - Metaphysics - 1881 - 798 pages
...So, again, he describes men as being ' a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement 2.' ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant...
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The Metaphysics of the School: Book4. Principles of being; Book 5. Causes of ...

Thomas Harper - Metaphysics - 1881 - 798 pages
...So, again, he describes men as being ' a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement 2.' ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant...
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Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance,...
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British Thought and Thinkers: Introductory Studies, Critical, Biographical ...

George Sylvester Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 510 pages
...says Hume, reveals itself only as a " bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux or movement." And again, "the true idea of the human mind is to consider it as a system of different...
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