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A Treatise of Human Nature
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A Treatise of Human Nature examines experience and the attribution of personal identity. Its appendix leaves a difficulty about the unity of perceptions explicitly unresolved.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 51
Habit, causation and the self
Hume traces our expectations beyond observed cases to custom, and questions whether we ever perceive an unchanging self. His account of the self leaves a difficulty he kept open.