Ainslie, Donald C. · 2008
Hume on Personal Identity
Ainslie, Donald C. (2008). “Hume on Personal Identity.” In A Companion to Hume, ed. Elizabeth Radcliffe, 140-157.
57
citations of the Treatise
209
paragraphs reached
49%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.69
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 5%Body and the external world 51%Immateriality of the soul 44%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.2.3.5 6 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.8.17 6 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.6.1 7 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Roth 2000 similarity 0.94
What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity? - Green 1999 similarity 0.94
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity - Kail 2007 similarity 0.93
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.92
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.91
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
Appendix
The evidence
Every citation the pipeline accepted, with the words around it. “Citation pattern” means a standard Norton or Selby-Bigge reference; “quote matched” means the quoted words were found in the Treatise at that page; “checked by model” means a language model judged an ambiguous page number to be a Treatise citation.
| Cited as | Maps to | Context |
|---|---|---|
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …onal identity. He addresses the topic only in the Treatise, where "Of Personal Identity" (T 1.4.6) is the penultimate… |
| T 1.4.7.14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.14 | …throughout the Treatise to a philosophy that "suits with common practice and experience" (T 1.4.7.14) - sees it as insul… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …f the "indirect" person-oriented passions of pride, humility, love, and hatred in Book 2 (T 1.4.6.5). The interpretive… |
| T App. 1 Citation pattern | App. 1 | … personal identity as containing what he takes to be his one "very considerable mistake" (T App. 1) in all of Books 1 … |
| T App. 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ss, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent. (T App. 10) Hume elaborates t… |
| T 1.1.6.1-2 Citation pattern | T 1.1.6 (2 paragraphs) | … because experience gives no indication of an "I know not what" underlying the qualities (T 1.1.6.1-2; see also T 1.4.3).… |
| T 1.4.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …ves no indication of an "I know not what" underlying the qualities (T 1.1.6.1-2; see also T 1.4.3). On the other hand… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …s empirically false. Introspective reflection - "intimate entry into what I call myself" (T 1.4.6.3) - shows that our p… |
| T 1.4.2.31 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.31 | …out having even an implicit grasp that we are getting only our own perspective on things (T 1.4.2.31). Accordingly, when… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …eed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (T 1.4.6.4). We do not stand o… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …lf at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. (T 1.4.6.3; original emphasis … |
| T 1.4.2.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.6 | …arious deeds in everyday life. For Hume, the former, metaphysical question is "abstruse" (T 1.4.2.6), in that it only c… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …e in ourselves" is best treated by an investigation of the passions, not of mental unity (T 1.4.6.5; see also Penelhum … |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …s, in contrast, Hume labels "personal identity as it regards our thought or imagination" (T 1.4.6.5). My discussion her… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …iscovery that the mind is merely a bundle of perceptions means that it has no real unity (T 1.4.6.4). So far as we can … |
| T 1.3.8 Citation pattern | T 1.3.8 (18 paragraphs) | …d objects causes the mind to associate the idea of one object with the idea of the other (T 1.3.8). The scientists th… |
| T 1.2.3.5 Citation pattern | T 1.2.3.5 | …ontiguous objects constitutes a "manner of appearance" responsible for the idea of space (T 1.2.3.5); the scientists th… |
| T 1.1.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.6 (3 paragraphs) | … other kinds of objects. He does not, however, return to the pre-modern substance theory (T 1.1.6; 1.4.3). Instead, o… |
| 1.4.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …nds of objects. He does not, however, return to the pre-modern substance theory (T 1.1.6; 1.4.3). Instead, objects … |
| T 1.4.2.31-6, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (7 paragraphs) | …sociated together, causing us to feel as though the qualities themselves belong together (T 1.4.2.31-6, 1.4.6.6-14). For exam… |
| T 1.4.5.9-10, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | … denies that contiguity can apply to perceptions themselves, as opposed to their objects (T 1.4.5.9-10, 1.4.6.17). Just as th… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …ideas [i.e. the ideas of the perceptions] in the imagination, when we reflect upon them. (T 1.4.6.16) Note, then, that … |
| T 1.1.1.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 | …s of them. Hume calls ideas that take other perceptions as their objects secondary ideas (T 1.1.1.11). A Companion to H… |
| T 1.3.8.16-17 Citation pattern | T 1.3.8 (2 paragraphs) | …py of the original impression by being an idea of the event, not of the impression of it (T 1.3.8.16-17). Philosophers take… |
| T 1.1.1.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 | …ndary ideas as the vehicles by means of which be becomes aware of the mind's perceptions (T 1.1.1.11). Just as Locke ap… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | … perceptions "contributes to [the] production" of the belief in the identity of the mind (T 1.4.6.18). Moreover, memory … |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …memory is also involved in the causation-based associations between ideas of perceptions (T 1.4.6.20). Scientists of man… |
| T 1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1 (13 paragraphs) | …sts of man discover many causal connections between perceptions: impressions cause ideas (T 1.1.1), the idea of a fut… |
| T 2.3.9 Citation pattern | T 2.3.9 (32 paragraphs) | …ceptions: impressions cause ideas (T 1.1.1), the idea of a future pleasure causes desire (T 2.3.9), the passion of lo… |
| T 2.2.6 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6 (6 paragraphs) | … pleasure causes desire (T 2.3.9), the passion of love causes the passion of benevolence (T 2.2.6); and so on. But in… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | … can be causally connected to the perceptions that are observed to constitute her bundle (T 1.4.6.20). ## Hume's Second… |
| T App. 1 Citation pattern | App. 1 | …e article" in Books 1 and 2 where his "reasonings" contain a "very considerable mistake" (T App. 1), Hume spends most … |
| T App. 10-21 Citation pattern | Appendix (12 paragraphs) | …), Hume spends most of that portion of the Appendix that is devoted to personal identity (T App. 10-21) reaffirming his or… |
| T App. 15 Citation pattern | App. 15 | …ing but the perceptions. 'Tis the composition of these, therefore, which forms the self. (T App. 15) The problem arise… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …n the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T App. 20). Hume goes on to s… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …stences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. (T App. 21) He offers two pos… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …something simple and individual or the discovery of real connections between perceptions (T App. 21). In either case, t… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …ce as that which can exist in its own right, perceptions should be counted as substances (T 1.4.5.5). The second princi… |
| T 1.3.6.1 Citation pattern | T 1.3.6.1 | … argument that the association of ideas stands behind the inference from cause to effect (T 1.3.6.1). If Hume really th… |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …tably at a crucial moment in his discussion of our sensory awareness of external objects (T 1.4.2.39). If the Appendix's… |
| T 1.4.5.9-10 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …ons of objects that Hume says are nowhere - namely those of tastes, smells, and the like (T 1.4.5.9-10; see Garrett 1981: … |
| T 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …t that suggests such a picture can be found in "Of scepticism with regard to the senses" (T 1.4.2) where Hume says th… |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …s relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being. (T 1.4.2.39) This passage is d… |
| T 1.4.2.31, 46 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (2 paragraphs) | … a non-standard notion of "perception" in which it is used interchangeably with "object" (T 1.4.2.31, 46). In his more stand… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. (T App. 20; original emphasis … |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …n the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T App. 20; emphasis added). I… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (T 1.4.6.5) When Hume goes on… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …zabeth S. Radcliffe, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, (T 1.4.6.18). The relations amo… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …ght experiment by saying: "The case is the same whether we consider ourselves or others" (T 1.4.6.18). Of course, the ca… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …portion of his original explanation of personal identity that he takes to be "promising" (T App. 20), Hume makes a simi… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …ry] ideas of them are felt to be connected together, and naturally introduce each other. (T App. 20; emphasis added) H… |
| T 1.1.1.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 | …: 99-126). Secondary ideas are caused by the perceptions that they have as their objects (T 1.1.1.11). Perhaps then the … |
| T 1.4.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (18 paragraphs) | …rmining the belief, though, as Hume explores in the Conclusion to Book 1 of the Treatise (T 1.4.7), selfawareness abo… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … will succeed, Hume says that he is left with only two other possible explanations of it (T App. 21), each positing a r… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …ory, and so he ends this portion of the Appendix "pleading the privilege of the sceptic" (T App. 21). To conclude, the… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …n the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T App. 20). His concern, I ha… |
| T 1.4.2, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …rts of the Treatise that attempt to explain our beliefs in the unity of external objects (T 1.4.2, 1.4.3). Though the i… |