This paper offers a new interpretation of Hume’s Treatise as a work written by a methodological solipsist. It argues that Hume anticipates later developments by launching a Fodorian project that is to be realised by Carnapian means. Hume develops an explanatory theory of mental operations based on an analysis conducted by way of similarity recollections in the stream of experience. The paper first presents the case for Hume’s commitment to methodological solipsism and then offers a reconstruction of the methodology with which his project is to be executed. Hume proceeds by analysing perceptions and the connections between them to account for their “nature” and the “principles” underlying their interaction. His analyses reveal the solipsistic methodological credo that Hume did not make explicit.

本文对休谟的 《论》 作为方法论唯我论者所著的作品进行了新的解释。它认为，休谟通过启动一个福多里安项目来预测未来的发展，该项目将通过卡纳皮安的方式实现。休谟在通过经验流中的相似性回忆进行的分析的基础上，发展了一种心理作的解释理论。本文首先提出了休谟致力于方法论唯我论的案例，然后对他的项目将要执行的方法进行了重建。休谟通过分析感知和它们之间的联系来解释它们的“本质”和它们相互作用背后的“原则”。他的分析揭示了休谟没有明确阐述的唯我论方法论信条。