Full Idea
The memory not only discovers the identity [of the mind], but also contributes to its production, by producing the relation of resemblance among the perceptions
Gist of Idea
Memory not only reveals identity, but creates it, by producing resemblances
Source
David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], I.IV.6)
Book Reference
Hume,David: 'A Treatise of Human Nature', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1978], p.261
A Reaction
This is Hume battling to explain personal identity by his principles of association. He discount 'contiguity'. He doesn't explain how memory creates resemblances. Is not resemblance of idea to fact required in order to remember?
Related Idea
Idea 21306 Causation unites our perceptions, by producing, destroying and modifying each other [Hume]