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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

23498	The modern idea of the subjective soul is composite, and impossible [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: Therre is no such thing as the soul - the subject, etc. - as it is conceived in the superficial psychology of the present day. Indeed a composite soul would no longer be a soul.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 5.5421)
	A reaction: This seems to endorse Descartes' claim about the essential unity of the mind. I think Hume is in the background of LW's thought. Presumably the psychologist offered a 'composite' view. Prior discussion of belief leads into this remark.