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a metaphysical 'cause'.

Similarly, Hume argued that we never know the self directly, being blind to our true natures. As Roderick Chisholm put it, Hume in effect argues that we do not know the self as object, only the self as subject (though Hume does not use the language of subject and object, since this belongs to the later post-Kantian tradition). Hume himself says,

'For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception'.

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