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    It is not the case that Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that associative contiguity and resemblance can bind representations without requiring a judging subject.

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    • 1.Selecting which representations to associate already presupposes some minimal judging capacity or synthetic act.
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    • 2.Pure association cannot explain the temporal unity or narrative continuity of the self that even Hume acknowledged.
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    • 3.Association itself is not self-explanatory—it requires criteria for what counts as sufficiently contiguous or resembling.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Empirical psychology shows associative mechanisms operate automatically without conscious judgment, supporting Hume's mechanistic account.
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    • 2.Bundle theory explains how perceptions cohere into unified objects without positing a metaphysically problematic transcendental ego.
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    • 3.Contiguity and resemblance are observable relations between representations that require no appeal to a judging faculty.
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