David Hume asserted that when he introspects, he only encounters specific perceptions like heat, cold, light, shade, love, hatred, pain, or pleasure, and can never observe a self independent of these perceptions.

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• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

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• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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