 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - Philosophy - 1902 - 432 pages
...may with equal truth be said of mind. " There are some philosophers who imagine we are every mpment intimately conscious of what we call our Self ; that...feel its existence, and its continuance in existence " (Treatise on Human Nature, Part IV, Sect. VI). But this is another subjective illusion which can... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Logic - 1905 - 472 pages
...not in the understanding. — Lucke, Essay on Human Understanding. 50. There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. Now, it is evident that there must be some one impression that gives rise to every real idea. But self... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...as long as there is any resemblance remaining. AGAINST PERSONAL IDENTITY There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view,... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 534 pages
...times principally does it return, and by what causes is it produced ? " 2 " There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...found foreign to our present purpose. SECTION VI. Of personal identity. ./i here are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Enlightenment - 1910 - 334 pages
...that I venture to quote from it in this connection somewhat at length: "There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion say they, instead of distracting us from this view,... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - Metaphysics - 1910 - 618 pages
...a clear and forcible statement of his opponents' teaching. "There are," he says, "some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...feel its existence and its continuance in existence. . . . The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this... | |
 | William McDougall - Animism - 1913 - 582 pages
...reference to such affirmations of our immediate awareness of the self as Berkeley had made, he wrote : "Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary...experience which is pleaded for them ; nor have we any idea of_ self, after the manner it is here explained. For, from what impression could this idea be derived... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - Aesthetics - 1915 - 452 pages
...Hume, for instance, writes : — " There are some philosophers who imagine that we are every moment conscious of what we call our SELF; that we feel its...existence, and its continuance in existence." And later on he continues: — " Setting aside some metaphysicians, I may venture to affirm of the rest... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - Aesthetics - 1915 - 460 pages
...Hume, for instance, writes : — " There are some philosophers who imagine that we are every moment conscious of what we call our SELF ; that we feel...existence, and its continuance in existence." And later on he continues: — " Setting aside some metaphysicians, I may venture to affirm of the rest... | |
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THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity... 
