ABSTRACT
A self, in this book, is defined as an enduring substance with a quality, which is its constant possession, which it does not share with any other substance, and which, if not remembered by it as its own, still has an affinity with a quality which someone remembers having had. In Chapter 1, I explain this definition, and maintain that we are selves, as so defined. Suppose you remember not just what you have perceived or done, but what did it or perceived it. Then you remember a quality of what did it or perceived it. This quality is yours. I call it ipseical. We are many, and the simplest way to distinguish us from each other is to suppose that we are disseveralities, defined as substances each with a different ipseical quality. In further sections of Chapter 1, I discuss volition, as the intensification of a self's ipseical quality, and affirm our embodiment and our freedom.
