Mind as Operating Theater

Hume, like Locke before him, believes that Experience is constituted by irreducible fundamental elements, a view implicitly opposed to Leibniz' thesis that such elements can themselves be comprised of subliminal 'petites' perceptions.  A recent descendant of Hume's Atomism is Analytic Philosophy, which, while asserting that the isolation of such elements is the sole effective means of resolving philosophical problems, seems to remain oblivious to the tendentiousness of such an assertion.  Probably the most distinctive feature of this variation of Atomism is its focus on language, with words as its fundaments.  So, with its attention to linguistic surgery, the variety of 'theater' that is an image of the Analytic Philosophy concept of Mind, is that of medical operation, rather than of drama audience, as it is for Hume.