Davie, William · 1984
Hume on Perceptions and Persons
Davie, William (1984). “Hume on Perceptions and Persons.” Hume Studies 10(2): 125–138.
12
citations of the Treatise
27
paragraphs reached
36%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.14
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 6%Body and the external world 38%Immateriality of the soul 56%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.7.10 4 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.7.9 4 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.32 n38 20 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Pereira 2014 similarity 0.93
Hume y la Ficcíon de Identidad Personal - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.89
The Self and Personal Identity - Yang 1998 similarity 0.87
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Rocknak 2012 similarity 0.87
Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.87
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and 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 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
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 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …t his own introspection never reveals anything but "some particular perception or other." (T 252) He concludes from t… |
| (T 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ossest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence thro' the whole course of our lives." (T 253) The explanation Hum… |
| (T 1) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | …nd resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS." (T 1) This assertion, wit… |
| (T 202) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …"Those very sensations, which enter by the eye or ear, are with them the true objects..." (T 202) In order to represe… |
| (T 202) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ans by a hat, or shoe, or stone, or any other impression, convey'd to him by his senses. (T 202) Of course it canno… |
| (T 67) Citation pattern | T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs) | …conceive or form an idea of any thing specifically different from ideas and impressions." (T 67) Again, in a slightl… |
| (T
241) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …relation without a relative, or to make it the very same with a perception or impression. (T 241) We cannot say that… |
| (T 1-2) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1 (4 paragraphs) | …"Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking," (T 1-2) both of which fall … |
| (T 269) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (3 paragraphs) | …y determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life." (T 269) His philosophical d… |
| (T 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure." (T 252) Indeed, a person ma… |
| (T 252-53) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | … without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable than our sight...." (T 252-53) Within Hume's acco… |
| (T 251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …n, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference." (T 251) The idea must be fr… |