Giles, James · 1993
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
Giles, James (1993). “The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity.” Philosophy East and West 43(2): 175–200.
21
citations of the Treatise
36
paragraphs reached
45%
focus on the core paragraphs
2.48
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, mostly through the passages everyone cites.
Theme mix
Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the AppendixThemes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.5.35 28 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.14 33 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.10 35 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Schwerin 2012 similarity 1.00
Hume on the Self - Mendus 1980 similarity 1.00
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume - Roth 1990 similarity 0.99
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.98
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Greco 2015 similarity 0.94
The Self as Narrative in Hume
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (p. 253). And there is nothi… |
| " (p. 251) Checked by model | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ession, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have reference" (p. 251). With this much sa… |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …thought or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (p. 253). His concern here, … |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …veral different objects existing in succession, and connected together by a close relation" (p. 253). Now although these… |
| " (p. 256) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ition, and are apt to imagine, that 'tis nothing but a continu'd survey of the same object" (p. 256). This is especially… |
| " (p. 257) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …till attribute identity to them, while their form, size and substance are entirely alter'd" (p. 257). The reference to t… |
| " (p. 251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …way. Thus it is claimed, for example, that "there is no impression constant and invariable" (p. 251), "there is no such … |
| " (p. 252) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e is no impression constant and invariable" (p. 251), "there is no such idea (of the self)" (p. 252), "1 always stumble … |
| " (p. 252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …uch idea (of the self)" (p. 252), "1 always stumble on some particular perception or other" (p. 252), and, finally, "the… |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …lly, "there is properly no simplicity in (the mind) at one time, nor identity in different" (p. 253). However, when we c… |
| " (p. 257) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … same; nor does the difference of the materials hinder us from ascribing an identity to it" (p. 257); although plants an… |
| " (p. 257) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …though plants and animals undergo a total change, "yet we still attribute identity to them" (p. 257); a man who hears an… |
| " (p. 258) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … to them" (p. 257); a man who hears an intermittent noise "says it is still the same noise" (p. 258); and because an ear… |
| " (p. 256) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …scruple not to pronounce a mass of matter the same, where we find so trivial an alteration" (p. 256). For in saying this… |
| " (p. 256) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …sibly we are less apt to ascribe to it the same effect (that is, the loss of its identity)" (p. 256). All of this shoul… |
| " (p. 258) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …n still be called the same as its predecessor "without breach of the propriety of language" (p. 258). He does not, unfor… |
| " (p. 262) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ation of parts give rise to some fiction or imaginary (i.e. mysterious) principle of union" (p. 262). Thus if two person… |
| " (p. 252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …er most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception" (p. 252), the word "I" is be… |
| " (p. 277) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …ines later we are told about "that connected succession of perceptions, which we call self" (p. 277). These hardly seem … |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …thought or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (p. 253). Personal identity … |
| (pp. 633-636) Checked by model | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 22 (16 paragraphs) | …70. - 14 - There are also the so-called "second thoughts" in the Appendix to the Treatise (pp. 633-636), where Hume seems t… |