Butchvarov, Panayot · 1959
The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy
Butchvarov, Panayot (1959). “The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy.” Philosophical Quarterly 9(35): 97–115.
19
citations of the Treatise
27
paragraphs reached
34%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.68
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 15%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 49%Immateriality of the soul 36%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Patten 1976 similarity 0.91
Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant - Rocknak 2012 similarity 0.91
Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects - Yang 1998 similarity 0.90
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.90
The Self and Personal Identity - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.89
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion
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 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
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 |
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| " (p. 251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …r the manner it is here explain'd. For from what impression cou'd this idea be deriv'd ? " (p. 251). Hume's foremost i… |
| " (p. 251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ous of what we call our Self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence " (p. 251). If this is the co… |
| " (p. 635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | … but the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings cou'd have induc'd me to receive it " (p. 635). Clearly Hume was n… |
| " (p. 277) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …on of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness" (p. 277) ; and " . . . tho' … |
| " (p. 277) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …sions of perceptions, which we call self, be always the object of these two passions . . ." (p. 277). The fact that Hume… |
| " (p. 277) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …n of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness " (p. 277). It is the successi… |
| (260) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ook I and his doctrine of the self in Book II. ·Underlining mine. "Treatise, I., IV., 6 (260). [This is Hume's fo… |
| (p. 13) Checked by model | T 1.1.4.6 to T 1.1.5.1 (3 paragraphs) | …lly introduces the other ", in accordance with the principles of the association of ideas (p. 13).) It is of such pe… |
| " (p. 251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ion, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference " (p. 251), he asks the questi… |
| " (p. 252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … question with the categorical statement, " I am certain there is no such principle in me " (p. 252). For one thing, the… |
| " (p. 207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …serting that " there is no absurdity in separating any particular perception from the mind" (p. 207). 11 A Treatise Con… |
| " (p. 66) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) | …object of our thought, or must be the very same with the idea of the perception or object " (p. 66). This statement of … |
| " (p. 251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ous of what we call our Self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence " (p. 251) ; and what he asser… |
| " (p. 252) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …" (p. 251) ; and what he asserts is, " I am certain that there is no such principle in me " (p. 252). Third, that even i… |
| " (p. 252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …der'd, and may exist separately, and have no need of any thing to support their existence " (p. 252). He also states tha… |
| " (p. 207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …nly " a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations " (p. 207), that is, in our in… |
| " (p. 207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …its relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being " (p. 207). The important fac… |
| " (p. 207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ing their number by present reflexions and passions, and in storing the memory with ideas " (p. 207). If we interpret th… |
| (p. 66) Checked by model | T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) | …be questioned. In that section Hume clearly accepts the second alternative of the dilemma (p. 66), namely, that " the… |