If valid, what does this prove?

Question:"All our perceptions are different from each other, and from everything else in the universe; they are also distinct and separable, and may be consider'd as separately existent, and may exist separately, and have no need to support their existence."

Hume.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "All our perceptions are different from each other, and from everything else in the universe; they are also distinct and separable, and may be consider'd as separately existent, and may exist separately, and have no need to support their existence."

Hume.

From the existence of ideas, it is not necessary to infer the existence of any self.

Seems like a longer way of saying, "I think, therefore I am."

It says that perceptions have an independent existence, and even if we disbelieved in a world "out there," it doesn't matter, as far as the existence of our perceptions goes. They are still there.

This proves the multiplicity of the basic element of reality which could be said to be an individuals perception and awareness of that perception. This could be taken to then show the multiplicity of reality itself if this is taken to be the building blocks from which we construct our reality or understand it.

Nothing is identical

Thru (20x20 hindsight) by focusing more on that which is in view.