 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 Seiten
...himself, though I am certain there is no such principle in me.'1 Hume's conclusion is, therefore, that 'the mind is a kind of theatre where several perceptions...identity in different; whatever natural propension we have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They... | |
 | Uwe Meixner, Albert Newen - 2003 - 418 Seiten
...auch nach Kant: other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. [...] The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different [...]. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only,... | |
 | David Hume - 2003 - 484 Seiten
...contribute to this change; nor is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of...variety of postures and situations. There is properly no sim, plicity in it at one time, nor identity in different; whatever natural propension we may have... | |
 | Louis Roy - 2003 - 264 Seiten
...this perceptualism, he obviously cannot accept as real anything besides those impressions. He states: The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations. . . . They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant... | |
 | Alexander Broadie - 2003 - 386 Seiten
...perfect simplicity and identity'." Hume does indeed appear to reject this doctrine, for he declares: 'The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.'26 This metaphor is suggestive of a Newtonian conception of space as the place of particles... | |
 | Charlotte Crofts - 2003 - 230 Seiten
...cinema of illusion developed. 4 Several Perceptions takes its title from a quotation from David Hume: 'The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...appearance, pass, re-pass, glide away and mingle in an inf1nite variety of postures and situations' which, while obviously referring to traditional theatre,... | |
 | Catherine Jones - 2003 - 258 Seiten
...Instead, distanced from meaning, the theater of history becomes no more than Hume's "theatre of the mind," "where several perceptions successively make their...in an infinite variety of postures and situations." 0 ' Colonel Joliffe, known to be of whig principles, and his granddaughter are the principal commentators.... | |
 | Branka Arsi? - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...apperception and causality, there is no continuity, either, and without continuity, the mind is only a theater "where several perceptions successively make their...in an infinite variety of postures and situations. "8s The mind becomes the flow of unconnected sensations that is the absence of the subject and therefore... | |
 | Harold W. Noonan - 2003 - 256 Seiten
...identity. they entitle him. he believes. to the conclusion that personal identity is a fiction. that 'the mind is a kind of theatre. where several perceptions successively make their appearance. . . . There is properly no simplicity in it at one time. nor identify at different' t1978:2531. For... | |
 | Tilo Kircher, Anthony S. David - 2003 - 502 Seiten
...neurological centre of experience. (Hume had used the metaphor of the theatre, but immediately set it aside: 'The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance . . . The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only,... | |
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The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. 
