Hume's view of the idea of the self is that it
A) correctly represents what makes me the same person today as yesterday.
B) is founded on an impression of a simple, unchanging substance.
C) is a fiction.
D) is like a theater in being the permanent, unchanging thing that contains the ever-changing performance.

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Hume argued that the idea of the self as a single, unchanging entity is a fiction. He believed that what we consider the self is actually a bundle of perceptions that are in constant flux, without any fixed or inherent substance.

Hume's View of the Idea of the Self Is That