PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bundle Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1E03
• Professor: Richard Arthur

Document Summary

Any object consists solely of a collection (bundle) of properties and relations. According to this theory, when you think of a cat, you are thinking about color, shape, smell, texture, the fact that it is feline, etc. There is not substance that the properties inhere in. Hume"s goal is to refute the idea that the soul is immaterial. He believes that this idea is complete non-sense. For hume, our ideas are derived from impressions. He asks why is that some philosophers debate whether our perceptions inhere in a material or immaterial substance. We wants any proponent of the immateriality of the soul to show him the impression that gave him the idea. How can one show you an impression of an immaterial thing. He begins this new section by reference to a past argument- that thought and extension are 2 compatible qualities. Thought and extension cannot be in the same subject.