In the ‘Appendix’ to the Treatise, Hume claims that he has discovered a ‘very considerable’ mistake in his earlier discussion of the self. Hume's expression of the problem is notoriously opaque, leading to a vast scholarly debate as to exactly what problem he identified in his earlier account of the self. I propose a new solution to this interpretive puzzle. I argue that a tension generated by Hume's conceptual scepticism about real ‘principles of union’ and his account of fictions of the imagination is the defect identified in the ‘Appendix’.

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休谟迷宫中的小说和内容

在论文的“附录”中，休谟声称他在早期对自我的讨论中发现了一个“非常严重”的错误。众所周知，休谟对这个问题的表述是不透明的，导致了一场关于他在早期对自我的描述中究竟发现了什么问题的学术争论。我为这个解释难题提出了一个新的解决方案。我认为，休谟对真正的“联合原则”的概念怀疑和他对想象的虚构的描述所产生的张力是“附录”中确定的缺陷。