...consciousness. I cannot discover any theory. which gives me satisfaction on this head. ... In short. there are two principles. which I cannot render consistent:...distinct existences. and that the mind never perceives anv real connexion amongst distinct existences. l1978:6361 Clearly Hume no longer believes that the...

...or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head. In short there are two principles, which I cannot render consistent...existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did our perceptions either inhere in something simple and individual,...

...doctrine is associated in Mr. Russell's mind with the two fundamental principles of David Hume — namely, 'that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences'. Here once more it is hard to see whether there is any closer...

..."simplicity of the soul", he worries about what unites our perceptions in thought. He writes: "In short there are two principles, which I cannot render consistent; nor is it in my power to renounce them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives...

...(Treatise Appendix 20) Hume continues that there are two principles that he cannot render consistent 'that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences' (Treatise Appendix 21). In fact, these propositions are not inconsistent...