PP111 Lecture 5: PP111 Lecture 5.docx
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It does this in two ways: as a memory when the impressions is fresh and still retains much of its original vivacity, when it loses this vivacity and becomes a pure idea created by the imagination, hume thinks that our imagination plays a big role in deceiving us into thinking that the self is a simple", unified entity. What then gives us so great a propension to ascribe an identity to these successive perceptions and to suppose ourselves possest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence thro" the whole course of our lives? (49: although we hold these notions, identity" and diversity" as two distinct ideas, in actual experience or in our common ways of thinking we often confound the two, the mind joins together experiences that resemble one another or ideas that we regularly associate together, constant injunction is the way we join them together.
