Hume Paper

Who is Doug Quail? Doug Quail changes his personal characteristics, but his perceptions and mental ideas make him the same person. A person’s identity is based on the way in which he or she perceives self- impressions or encounters certain experiences. For example, a person might interpret an impression of something completely different from someone else. David Hume believes that nobody has a personal identity. Instead, he believes that each person is made up …

…seems quite true. Most ideas a person has of something comes from some type of impression it had on that person. However, personal identity is the way in which a person perceives these impressions. It is your way of thinking, analyzing, and desiring that makes up your own personal identity. In Doug Quail’s case it was his desires and his own perceived impressions that made him the same person he was in the beginning.