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Ainslie, Donald C. · 2009

Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail

Ainslie, Donald C. (2009). “Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail.” Metaphilosophy 40(2): 292–296.

13
citations of the Treatise
114
paragraphs reached
3%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.06
surprise of rarest citation

Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.

Theme mix

Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 59%Body and the external world 13%Immateriality of the soul 28%

Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.

Its rarest citations

Nearest papers

  • Winkler 2010 similarity 0.64
    P.J.E. Kails Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy
  • Loeb 1992 similarity 0.63
    Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity
  • Strawson 2011 similarity 0.57
    The Evident Connexion
  • Kail 2008 similarity 0.53
    On Humes Appropriation of Malebranche Causation and Self
  • Garrett 2010 similarity 0.53
    Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity

Compare with Winkler 2010 →

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
1.1.1 Of the Origin of our Ideas
1.1.7 Of abstract ideas
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
1.2.5 The same subject continu'd
1.2.6 Of the idea of existence, and of external existence
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
1.3.8 Of the causes of belief
1.3.9 Of the effects of other relations and other habits
1.3.14 Of the idea of necessary connexion
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
1.4.2 Of scepticism with regard to the senses
1.4.5 Of the immateriality of the soul
1.4.6 Of personal identity
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
2.3.3 Of the influencing motives of the will

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.

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T 1.2.6.9
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T 1.2.6.9…an still notion of what things are like beyond the realm of acquaintanc "Relative ideas" (T 1.2.6.9, SBN 68), where one…
T 1.1.7
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T 1.1.7 (20 paragraphs)…an is sometimes assumed. Most obviously, as Hume shows his treatment of general thoughts (T 1.1.7), our tendency to a…
T 1.3.14.27
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T 1.3.14.27…ly it, obscurity and error begin then to take place, and w astray by a false philosophy" (T 1.3.14.27, SBN 168). And, in …
T 1.2.5.2
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T 1.2.5.2…e senses, I am afraid, that most conclusions will be full of scepticism and uncertainty" (T 1.2.5.2 SBN 639). 2 Cognit…
T 1.1.1.7
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T 1.1.1.7…s in the mind bundle, "which of the impressions and ideas are causes, and which effects" (T 1.1.1.7, SBN 4). Kail does …
T 1.4.2
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T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs)…rectly (according to the processes explored in "Of scepticism with regard to the senses" [T 1.4.2]), yield an awarene…
T 1.3.14.29
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T 1.3.14.29…But when we reflect, and "change the point of view, from the objects to the perceptions" (T 1.3.14.29, SBN 169), we form …
T 1.1.1.11
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T 1.1.1.11…s" (T 1.3.14.29, SBN 169), we form ideas of percep tions-what Hume calls secondary ideas (T 1.1.1.11, SBN 6). Hume repea…
T 1.3.8.15-17, 1
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T 1.3.8 (4 paragraphs)…hile introspecting with the vulgar's view of the world when immersed in mental processes (T 1.3.8.15-17, 1.4.6.5-15, SBN 105-6…
SBN 105-6,253-59
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T 1.3.8.14 to T 1.4.6.16 (19 paragraphs)… vulgar's view of the world when immersed in mental processes (T 1.3.8.15-17, 1.4.6.5-15, SBN 105-6,253-59). Moreover, he equa…
T 1.4.5.27
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T 1.4.5.27…etaphysical conclusions about the mind that we can draw from our (secondary) ideas of it (T 1.4.5.27, SBN 245). Kail's a…
T 1.3.14.12
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T 1.3.14.12…one causal power, namely, our will.9 Hume, however, is resolutely op Locke on this point (T 1.3.14.12, SBN 632), as well …
T 2.3.3.4
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T 2.3.3.4…e encountered of Hume's claim that reaso and ought only to be the slave of the passions" (T 2.3.3.4, SBN 4 While I dis…