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David Pears

Most people know their own identities. I know who I am, and I can produce enough facts to establish who I am. Anyone who wonders what these facts would be in his own case has only to imagine himself being questioned by the police.

David Pears, ‘Hume on Personal Identity’, in David Pears (ed.), David Hume: A Symposium, London, 1963, p. 43