Garrett, Don · 2010
Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity
Garrett, Don (2010). “Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity.” Hume Studies 36(1): 77–87.
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citations of the Treatise
98
paragraphs reached
39%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.44
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 54%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 46%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Humber 1995 similarity 0.83
Humes Invisible Self - Loeb 1992 similarity 0.83
Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity - Strawson 2011 similarity 0.82
The Evident Connexion - Swain 2006 similarity 0.80
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Kail 2007 similarity 0.80
Projection and Realism in Humes 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 3: Of the will and direct passions
Appendix
Abstract
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 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ity in the Treatise. As is well known, Hume holds in the section "Of personal identity" (T 1.4.6) that a self, mind,… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …a self, mind, or person is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions" (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 252) and, more… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …perceptions or different existences link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). 1 This b… |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …ater in the subsequent volume, to reporting a "difficulty too hard for my understanding" (T Appendix 21; SBN 636) concernin… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions nor how to render them consistent" (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). There a… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ons and absurdities" and involving him in a "labyrinth" sufficient to inspire skepticism (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). The Ori… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …'s perceptions] together, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity" (T Appendix 20; SBN 635). The Sol… |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …le and individual" or "the mind perceived some real connexion among distinct existences" (T Appendix 21; SBN 636). The Sco… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … "a system of different perceptions link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). Separab… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …ception that Hume has "rejected in all cases" in his earlier discussion of causation (see T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60, alludi… |
| T 1.3.14.13 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.13 | …ll cases" in his earlier discussion of causation (see T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60, alluding to T 1.3.14.13; SBN 161-62). The … |
| T 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …bstance, first offered in the section of the Treatise "Of the immateriality of the soul" (T 1.4.5) but partly repeate… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …artly repeated in "Of personal identity" and again in the Appendix, invokes Separability (T 1.4.5.5; SBN 233; T 1.4.6.3… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …f personal identity" and again in the Appendix, invokes Separability (T 1.4.5.5; SBN 233; T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252; T Appendi… |
| T Appendix 12 Citation pattern | App. 12 | … and again in the Appendix, invokes Separability (T 1.4.5.5; SBN 233; T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252; T Appendix 12; SBN 634). In revie… |
| T 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | … Similarly, principles of association are only a "gentle force, which commonly prevails" (T 1.1.4.1; SBN 10); but since… |
| T 1.3.14.31 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.31 | …like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter." (T 1.3.14.31; SBN; SBN 170) 6 H… |
| SBN 170 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs) | …precedency and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter." (T 1.3.14.31; SBN; SBN 170) 6 He certainly do… |
| T 1.3.14.32 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.32 | …h other. If constant conjunction be imply'd in what we call occasion, 'tis a real cause. (T 1.3.14.32; SBN 171) The seco… |
| T 1.3.14.33 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.33 | …jects, along with the determination of the mind, which constitutes a physical necessity" (T 1.3.14.33; SBN 171). In the c… |
| T 2.3.1 Citation pattern | T 2.3.1 (18 paragraphs) | …es a similar style of argument in the section of the Treatise "Of liberty and necessity" (T 2.3.1), where he appears … |
| T 2.3.1.4 Citation pattern | T 2.3.1.4 | …[t]he actions of matter have no necessity, but what is deriv'd from these circumstances. (T 2.3.1.4; SBN 400) 9 Finall… |
| T 1.4.5.32-33 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …ten be regarded as the causes of thought, as far as we have any notion of that relation. (T 1.4.5.32-33; SBN 249-50; emphas… |
| T 1.3.14.27 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.27 | …e please to call these power or efficacy, it will be of little consequence to the world. (T 1.3.14.27; SBN 168) I conclu… |
| T 1.4.5.32-33 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …lican also notes the significance of the passage from "Of the immateriality of the soul" (T 1.4.5.32-33; SBN 249-50) cited … |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | … separable is whether they can be separated, as he says, "in the thought or imagination" (T 1.1.7.3; SBN 18)-in other w… |
| SBN 650 Citation pattern | Abstract (3 paragraphs) | …ible, at least in a metaphysical sense" (Abstract of . . . A Treatise of Human Nature 11; SBN 650). Now, Causal Real… |