Single Idea 11098

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism]

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.