Hume himself thought that if you did not (and could not) encounter something in experience, then you had no right to talk of it. Your mind could not embrace it, or even ‘touch’ it. Hence, consistently, he held that the self was nothing but an aggregate of its ‘perceptions’ or experiences, together with whatever connections there are between them. There was content, but no container. This is sometimes called a ‘no ownership’ theory of the self,
