Green, Michael J. · 1999
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity
Green, Michael J. (1999). “The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7(1): 103–122.
39
citations of the Treatise
67
paragraphs reached
46%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.96
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, mostly through the passages everyone cites.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 11%Causation and the Appendix problem 7%Body and the external world 66%Immateriality of the soul 16%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.1.3.1 5 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.9.1 4 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.8.15 8 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Inukai 2007 similarity 0.97
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.97
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.96
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Swain 2006 similarity 0.94
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Kail 2007 similarity 0.94
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ' (252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …yself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception' (252) and they are the su… |
| ' (253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … place, where these scenes are representated, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd' (253). Furthermore, there… |
| (252-3) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ny single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. (252-3) 1 David Hume, A Tr… |
| (303) Checked by model | T 2.1.8.8 to T 2.1.9.1 (3 paragraphs) | … as physical beings as well as psychological ones in his discussion of pride and humility (303), but physical crite… |
| ' (253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … propension' to believe that they are possest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence' (253) throughout their li… |
| ' (253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … and animals; there being a great analogy betwixt it, and the identity of a self or person' (253). After discussing t… |
| (259) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ent origin, but must proceed from a like operation of the imagination upon like objects. (259) Hume's explanation… |
| (200-1) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (8 paragraphs) | …applies with the passage of time, but apparently denied that anything could have identity (200-1). 4Treatise, pp. 25… |
| (260–2) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (6 paragraphs) | … perceptions in a person's mind leads to the confusion with the paradigm identity pattern (260–2). The idea of a temp… |
| (208–10) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (6 paragraphs) | …y and the resemblance among perceptions play in leading to the belief in external objects (208–10) with his claims abo… |
| (260–61) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ut the role of memory and resembling perceptions in producing belief in personal identity (260–61). The two passages r… |
| (106) Checked by model | T 1.3.8.15 to T 1.3.9.1 (4 paragraphs) | …s easily conceiv'd how that idea o s n mn a s n mn n which we have no remembrance. (106) I know many things… |
| ' (190) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …hat people are only aware of perceptions and that -e o sos n n eus s r, oenr ceptions' (190). Nonetheless people… |
| (207-8) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (5 paragraphs) | …ns involves no contradiction. We may easily indulge our inclination to that supposition. (207-8) Regardless of how … |
| (635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. (635) Assuming that he w… |
| (317) Checked by model | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | … gives us so lively a conception of -a s n ssso o sn, t s r ticular go beyond it. (317) As I read it, this… |
| (252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. (252) The significance o… |
| ' (251) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …tack: those 'who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF' (251). This seems perilou… |
| ' (317) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | …aim, that the idea, or rather impression of ourselves is always intimately present with us' (317). One might think th… |
| ' (8) Checked by model | T 1.1.2.1 to T 1.1.3.1 (2 paragraphs) | …ions of reflection are caused when the idea of a previous impression returns upon the soul' (8), which means that t… |
| (231–2) Checked by model | T 1.4.4.14 to T 1.4.5.3 (5 paragraphs) | …hroughout a person's life and perceptions of something in the mind other than perceptions (231–2). Although the first… |
| ' (261) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … self. Hume followed his attacks with what he regarded as 'the true idea of the human mind' (261): that it is 'nothin… |
| '(252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …human mind' (261): that it is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions'(252). He challenged an i… |
| ' (252) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …s'(252). He challenged an imagined opponent to come up with a 'different notion of himself' (252), not any notion of … |
| '(253) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …mplicity poses a special problem because he denied the simplicity of the mind 'at one time'(253). But we may still h… |
| ' (207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …such a relation to a connected heap of perceptions, as to influence them very considerably' (207). To see or feel an … |
| ' (207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …l its relations, with that connected mass of perceptions which constitute a thinking being' (207). Consciousness, it … |
| ' (252) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception' (252), 'When I turn my re… |
| ' (634) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …y reflexion on myself, I never can perceive this self without some one or more perceptions' (634) and that, We can c… |
| (634) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …634) and that, We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. (634) Suppose the mind t… |
| ' (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …d the original perceptions is what makes the whole seem like the continuance of one object' (261). But this is a rela… |
| ' (106) Checked by model | T 1.3.8.15 to T 1.3.9.1 (4 paragraphs) | …nstead, he would have repeated his claim that memory reveals 'that certain je-ne-scai-quoi' (106) that marks an exper… |
| ' (633) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …nfess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent' (633). Hn s us os … |
| ' (635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …them [perceptions] together, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity' (635). He also claimed th… |
| ' (635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ly feel a connection or a determination of the thought, to pass from one object to another' (635). For this reason, H… |
| ' (635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ded self has to come from reflection on the train of past perceptions, that compose a mind' (635). Most will find thi… |
| ' (635) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ses from consciousness; and consciousness is nothing but a reflected thought or perception' (635). Hume's optimism ab… |
| ' (635–6) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …ht or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory which gives me satisfaction on this head' (635–6). Hume's explanatio… |
| ' (636) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences' (636). This passage is fr… |