Sentence examples for bundle of perceptions from inspiring English sources
Hume himself said (A Treatise of Human Nature) that his concept of mind as a bundle of perceptions inadequately accounts for the identity and simplicity of the mind.
Moreover, the mind itself, far from being an independent power, is simply "a bundle of perceptions" without unity or cohesive quality.
Bundle theory, Theory advanced by David Hume to the effect that the mind is merely a bundle of perceptions without deeper unity or cohesion, related only by resemblance, succession, and causation.
Yet for Sartre, unlike Husserl, the "I" or self is nothing but a sequence of acts of consciousness, notably including radically free choices (like a Humean bundle of perceptions).
By contrast, the existence of continuing and independent material objects and of continuing minds was extremely precarious; analysis showed both to be no more than bundles of perceptions, united by certain relations, and Hume more than once referred to them as "fictions," although it turned out on examination that they were not fictions in the way ghosts are.
Hume notoriously dismissed Cartesian substance as a "chimera" and argued that minds and bodies alike were nothing but "bundles of perceptions," interaction between which was always possible in principle; in practice, however, he stuck to the old-fashioned view that mind is one thing and body another and did nothing to explore their actual relationships.
But with his basic arguments for the relativity of knowledge and for the idea that minds are bundles of perceptions, Mill rejects all such proposals.
But since Kant was not familiar with the contents of Hume's earlier Treatise of Human Nature, he did not know that Hume too had generalized his approach to causality to the cases of mind and body, nor did he know that Hume may have tried to sidestep Berkeley's commitment to substances but not his ontological idealism altogether by his theory of both minds and bodies as bundles of perceptions.
As David Hume established long ago, our inner life is made up of disconnected bundles of perceptions that lie around like so much dirty laundry in the rooms of our memory.
It should have followed from his atomism that there is no unified consciousness, just "a bundle of different perceptions" (p. 252).
