Garrett, Don · 1981
Humes Self-Doubts About Personal Identity
Garrett, Don (1981). “Humes Self-Doubts About Personal Identity.” Philosophical Review 90(3): 337–358.
19
citations of the Treatise
83
paragraphs reached
23%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.80
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 7%Causation and the Appendix problem 16%Body and the external world 16%Immateriality of the soul 61%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.3.5.3 3 other papers reach it
- T 1.1.7.7 n5 2 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.5.1 5 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Pitson 2013 similarity 0.88
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self - Pitson 2012 similarity 0.87
The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity. By Galen Strawson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. Xii + 165. ISBN 9780199608508 - Robison 1974 similarity 0.86
Hume on Personal Identity - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.86
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume - Swain 2006 similarity 0.84
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy
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 3: Of the will and direct passions
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (T202-04) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (7 paragraphs) | …ame mental mechanism that gives rise to the belief in "continu'd and distinct existences" (T202-04), thereby confirming… |
| (T260-62) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (6 paragraphs) | …nd causal relations among perceptions, in doing so it also serves to produce resemblances (T260-62); and (3) to pronoun… |
| (T262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …r ascriptions of "fictitious" identity are subject to our wills), rather than substantive (T262). Why then, in spit… |
| (T635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …Hume's despair. But according to Hume himself, his theory has "so far a promising aspect" (T635). He seems quite con… |
| (T277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …he true idea of the human mind" [T261]), and Hume makes it clear at the outset of Book II (T277) that it is to such … |
| (T303) Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.8 to T 2.1.9.1 (3 paragraphs) | …7) that it is to such a bundleor, more loosely, to such a bundle together with one's body (T303) -that he is now app… |
| (T17-24) Citation pattern | T 1.1.6.3 to T 1.1.7.17 (19 paragraphs) | …plying the term 'oneself'. This idea of oneself is obviously a "general or abstract idea" (T17-24), consisting, as suc… |
| (T633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …the existence of an "impression of self or substance, as something simple and individual" (T633), something "simple … |
| (T252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …r substance, as something simple and individual" (T633), something "simple and continu'd" (T252), "constant and inva… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …nd individual" (T633), something "simple and continu'd" (T252), "constant and invariable" (T251), from which could b… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …xplained," that is, as the idea of something possessing "perfect identity and simplicity" (T251). But even though th… |
| (T637) Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.7 n5 | …may resemble each other is itself a separate or distinct perception; if it were, he notes (T637), simple perceptions… |
| (T83-85) Citation pattern | T 1.3.4.1 to T 1.3.5.3 (6 paragraphs) | …or the purposes of transferring force and vivacity, he classifies memories as impressions (T83-85).3 Thus, in the desc… |
| (T84) Citation pattern | T 1.3.4.3 to T 1.3.5.2 (3 paragraphs) | …elves, and to notice or intuit resemblances among perceptions.4 3 Furthermore, he allows (T84) that force and viva… |
| (T173-74) Citation pattern | T 1.3.15 (11 paragraphs) | …nly a "gentle force"), he retains a faith that all ultimate causal laws are deterministic (T173-74). And even if the la… |
| (T7) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 to T 1.1.2.1 (3 paragraphs) | …e copies, while impressions of reflection are always caused "in a great measure" by ideas (T7). But even in the ca… |
| (T399) Citation pattern | T 2.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …rly always partly dependent on our wills, that is, on our impressions of will or volition (T399); and these impressi… |
| (T235) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …ry connexion in nature." He asserts (E), just prior to the section "Of personal identity" (T235), because in his vie… |
| (T253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented . . ." (T253) Ironically, Hume h… |