Ashley, Lawrence Stack, Michael · 1974
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity
Ashley, Lawrence Stack, Michael (1974). “Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity.” Dialogue 13(2): 239–254.
16
citations of the Treatise
29
paragraphs reached
59%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.85
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 92%Causation and the Appendix problem 6%Body and the external world 1%Immateriality of the soul 0%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.4.3 6 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.4.2 6 other papers reach it
- T 2.1.11.9 4 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Mendus 1980 similarity 0.98
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume - Schwerin 2012 similarity 0.98
Hume on the Self - Giles 1993 similarity 0.98
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Roth 1990 similarity 0.97
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Greco 2015 similarity 0.93
The Self as Narrative in Hume
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 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (320) Checked by model | T 2.1.11 (2 paragraphs) | …ises from the relation of objects to ourself. Ourself is always intimately present to us. (320) ## and: (3) 'Tis … |
| (317) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | …on, that 'tis not possible to imagine that any thing can in this particular go beyond it. (317) According to Kemp … |
| (253-254) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …se a succession of similar objects for the continued presence of one and the same object. (253-254) For example, if Des… |
| " (226) Checked by model | T 1.4.4 (3 paragraphs) | …e entitled to be called 'the same' it has to remain unchanged from one period to the next." (226) ## LAWRENCE ASHLEY… |
| (256) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …st be the uninterrupted progress of the thought which constitutes the imperfect identity. (256) Suppose we take th… |
| (254) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ion or variation,... [a principle such as] the notion of a soul, and self, and substance. (254) The feigned contin… |
| " (259) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …titious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetable and animal bodies." (259) The mind would have… |
| (259-260) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …om the smooth and uninterrupted progress of the thought along a train of connected ideas. (259-260) This passage is of… |
| (261-262) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …as; and these relations produce identity, by means of that easy transition they occasion. (261-262) Our major contenti… |
| " (255) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … mass (of matter) provided all the parts continue uninterruptedly and invariably the same." (255) Penelhum gives many… |
| (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …acter and disposition, as well as his impressions and ideas, without losing his identity. (261) Penelhum is forced… |
| (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … each other and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. (261) Thus Hume does see… |
| ". (261) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …causation chains that constitute a person. Memory is thus "the source of personal identity". (261) One common objecti… |
| " (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ation of cause and effect, and mutually produce, destroy, influence and modify each other." (261) Thus the type of i… |
| " (14) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.1.5 (6 paragraphs) | …versal is that of identity, being common to every being, whose existence has any duration." (14) It seems clear that… |
| (253) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …een the self as regards our thought and imagination and the self as regards our passions. (253) Hume indicates that… |