Full Idea
Momentary impressions, according to Hume, are wrongly identified with one another on the basis of resemblance.
Gist of Idea
Momentary impressions are wrongly identified with one another on the basis of resemblance
Source
report of David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739]) by Willard Quine - Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis 3
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.74
A Reaction
I don't have a Hume quotation for this yet, but Quine is plausibly claiming Hume as a resemblance nominalist, equipped with an error theory about universals.