Carlson, Åsa · 2009
There Is Just One Idea of Self in Humes Treatise
Carlson, Åsa (2009). “There Is Just One Idea of Self in Humes Treatise.” Hume Studies 35(1-2): 171–184.
50
citations of the Treatise
41
paragraphs reached
28%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.82
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 90%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 10%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 1.3.9.15 2 other papers reach it
- T 2.1.1.1 1 other papers reach it
- T 2.2.2.17 2 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Greco 2015 similarity 0.77
The Self as Narrative in Hume - Ware 2014 similarity 0.74
Consciousness and Personal Identity - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.74
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.71
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Penelhum 1992 similarity 0.70
The Self of Book 1 and the Selves of Book 2
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 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 1: Of Virtue and Vice in general
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 2.1.11.4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.4 | …, that 'tis not possible to imagine, that any thing can in this particular go beyond it. (T 2.1.11.4; SBN 317-18; cf. T … |
| T 2.1.11.6 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.6 | …imagine, that any thing can in this particular go beyond it. (T 2.1.11.4; SBN 317-18; cf. T 2.1.11.6; SBN 318) Some dec… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ught or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves. (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253) ## And, … |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ach other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures. (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) Sometime… |
| T 2.1.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (6 paragraphs) | …of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness. (T 2.1.2. 2; SBN 277) Or, O… |
| SBN 277 Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …deas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness. (T 2.1.2. 2; SBN 277) Or, Ourself, inde… |
| T 2.2.2.17 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.17 | …Or, Ourself, independent of the perception of every other object, is in reality nothing. (T 2.2.2.17; SBN 340-41) ## 2.… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves. The first is our present subject. (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253) As I und… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …quality, which we attribute to them, because of the union of their ideas in imagination" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60). 6 In … |
| T 2.1.4.3 Citation pattern | T 2.1.4.3 | …itself into love, generosity, pity, courage, pride, and the other resembling affections. (T 2.1.4.3; SBN 283) As in th… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …egard to the imagination, by the making of our distant perceptions influence each other. (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) The idea… |
| T 1.4.6.18-19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … is a product of the relations of causation and resemblance among all of our perceptions (T 1.4.6.18-19; SBN 260-61). 8 The… |
| T 2.1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.1 | …e are relations of resemblance between the passions "and other emotions resembling them" (T 2.1.1.1; SBN 275). And we h… |
| T 2.2.2.16 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.16 | …o impulses concur with each other, and render the whole transition more smooth and easy. (T 2.2.2.16; SBN 339) The corr… |
| T 3.1.2.5 Citation pattern | T 3.1.2.5 | … production of the moral sentiment, which is actually a special kind of indirect passion (T 3.1.2.5; SBN 473). Finally,… |
| T 2.1.5.11 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.11 | …relation: Which analogy must be allow'd to be of no despicable proof of both hypotheses. (T 2.1.5.11; SBN 289-90) Furth… |
| T 2.1.11.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.5 | …d idea the vivacity of conception, with which we always form the idea of our own person. (T 2.1.11.5; SBN 318) Ainslie … |
| T 1.4.2.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.6 | …ume probably thinks that the ordinary man has a vague idea of himself as his perceptions (T 1.4.2.6; SBN 189-90), 13 an… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …imately into what" he calls himself and "stumble on some particular perception or other" (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252). Those pe… |
| T 1.4.6.18-20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ut his personal history or perceptions of his body and its present position and location (T 1.4.6.18-20; SBN 260-61). Of c… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …ime bundle, since we cannot remember every perception that has ever appeared in the mind (T 1.4.6.20; SBN 261). Now it … |
| T 1.1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | … of it, the liveliness of the idea of self makes it approach the status of an impression (T 1.1.1.1; SBN 1). This expla… |
| T 2.1.11.6 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.6 | … consciousness of our own person to the idea of the sentiments or passions of the other" (T 2.1.11.6; SBN 318). But here… |
| T 2.1.8.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.1 | …ll be allowed to be near enough connected with us to form one of these double relations" (T 2.1.8.1; SBN 298; cf. T 2.1… |
| T 2.1.1.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.2 | … enough connected with us to form one of these double relations" (T 2.1.8.1; SBN 298; cf. T 2.1.1.2; SBN 276). It is as… |
| T 2.1.10.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.10.2 | …enough connected bodies that some people own houses or equipages of which they are proud (T 2.1.10.2; SBN 310), and the … |
| T 2.1.11.4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.4 | … contiguous in both space and time to others, in order to sympathize with their passions (T 2.1.11.4; SBN 317). ## (2) … |
| T 2.2.2.15 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.15 | … us with greater vivacity than the ideas of sentiments and passions of any other person" (T 2.2.2.15; SBN 339). But, "se… |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …n, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference" (T 1.4.6.2; SBN 251). On my re… |
| T 2.2.2.15 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.15 | …n to which our perceptions are supposed to belong. Thus "ourselves" in the quotation from T 2.2.2.15 (SBN 339) refers to… |
| SBN 339 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ur perceptions are supposed to belong. Thus "ourselves" in the quotation from T 2.2.2.15 (SBN 339) refers to nothing … |
| T 2.2.1.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.1.2 | …identical person, of whose thoughts, actions and sensations we are intimately conscious" (T 2.2.1.2; SBN 329). On the c… |
| T 2.3.7.1 Citation pattern | T 2.3.7.1 | … intimately present to us, and whatever is related to self must partake of that quality. (T 2.3.7.1; SBN 427) Since we… |
| T 2.2.2.15 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.15 | …ticular it is hard to see how Hume can think both that vivacity brings with it attention (T 2.2.2.15; SBN 340-41) and th… |
| T 2.2.2.17 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.17 | …ntion (T 2.2.2.15; SBN 340-41) and that attention to the idea of self precludes sympathy (T 2.2.2.17; SBN 318)" (Ainslie… |
| T 2.2.2.15-16 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …ation on the lively idea of self, when the idea of self is not the object of any passion (T 2.2.2.15-16; SBN 339). Some ma… |
| T 2.2.2.17 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.17 | …sted; in which case the double relations of impressions and ideas can no longer operate. (T 2.2.2.17; SBN 340) One may … |
| T 2.1.5.6 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.6 | …s turns our view to ourselves, and make us think of our own qualities and circumstances" (T 2.1.5.6; SBN 287). When pro… |
| T 2.1.11.7 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.7 | … circumstances, is converted into an impression of that passion, that is, into a passion (T 2.1.11.7; SBN 319). This mec… |
| T 2.1.11.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.5 | …assions and their expressions, and Hume believes that we all share a common human nature (T 2.1.11.5; SBN 318). The conv… |
| T 2.1.11.3-4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (2 paragraphs) | …"idea, or rather impression" of herself, which is transferred to the idea of the passion (T 2.1.11.3-4; SBN 317). Thus she… |
| T 2.1.11.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.5 | …cked out, if based on resemblance. But why would manners, character, country or language (T 2.1.11.5; SBN 318), count as… |
| T 2.1.11.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.5 | …d idea the vivacity of conception, with which we always form the idea of our own person. (T 2.1.11.5; SBN 318) We are s… |
| T Appendix 20-21 Citation pattern | Appendix (2 paragraphs) | …lly connected to each other, at least not by any connections discoverable by human minds (T Appendix 20-21; SBN 635-36). In "O… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …d consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head. (T Appendix 20; SBN 635-36; my emp… |
| T 2.1.2.3 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.3 | …ne idea of self, that is, "that connected succession of perceptions, which we call self" (T 2.1.2.3; SBN 277). And I be… |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …blance and causation, and not by identity. The identity of the bundle is thus fictitious (T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259). Referenc… |
| T 1.4.6.17 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.17 | …is irrelevant when explaining our sense of identity and simplicity among the perceptions (T 1.4.6.17; SBN 260). Since we… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ant notion of the place, where" our perceptions occur, contiguity in space is irrelevant (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253). And when… |
| T 1.3.9.15 Citation pattern | T 1.3.9.15 | …vivacity, with which the mind reflects upon it, and is assur'd of its present existence" (T 1.3.9.15; SBN 115). Maybe th… |