Humber, James M. · 1995
Humes Invisible Self
Humber, James M. (1995). “Humes Invisible Self.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69(3): 485–501.
28
citations of the Treatise
56
paragraphs reached
40%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.29
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, mostly through the passages everyone cites.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 38%Body and the external world 13%Immateriality of the soul 50%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Kail 2007 similarity 0.94
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Ainslie 2008 similarity 0.91
Hume on Personal Identity - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.90
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Roth 2000 similarity 0.88
What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity? - Cottrell 2015 similarity 0.88
Minds, Composition, and Humes Skepticism in the Appendix
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (Treatise, 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …t of another, and observe that succession of perceptions, which constitutes his mind...." (Treatise, 260) 5 Interpretations, … |
| (Treatise, 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …e mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case. (Treatise, 636)6 The principal dif… |
| (Treatise, 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …any real connection to any other. 9 Having thus '10ssen'd all our particular perceptions" (Treatise, 635), Hume attempts to p… |
| (Treatise, 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …emblance and causation and the ability ofthese realations to produce associations ofideas (Treatise, 260). In the "Appendix,"… |
| (Treatise, 635-6) Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …n the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness." (Treatise, 635-6) Immediately after … |
| (Treatise,636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ions among percep tions--then, as Hume says, "there would be no difficulty in the case." (Treatise,636) The reason there wo… |
| (Treatise, 233) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | …9 Thus, as Fogelin recognizes (Interpretations, 88), if we define 'substance'as Hume does (Treatise, 233) as 'something which… |
| (Treatise, 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ossest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence thro' the whole course of our lives?" (Treatise, 253) In Book I, Part IV… |
| (Treatise, 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …f could be amind, that is to say, a "whoIe" or "bundle" composed of connected perceptions (Treatise, 635).11 In this case, th… |
| (Treatise, 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …no connections among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human under standing." (Treatise, 635) Once Hume realizes … |
| (Treatise, 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …re really no help in solving the problem and that he is "involv'd in ... a labyrinth...." (Treatise, 633) If the above analy… |
| (Treatise, 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …. More over, both appear to express a contradiction,13 and we can see why Hume would say (Treatise, 636) that it is not with… |
| (Treatise, 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ut no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding." (Treatise, 635) 12Hume formally de… |
| (Treatise, 207) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ertain relations... ," and he speaks of the mind as a "connected mass of perceptions...." (Treatise, 207) 13This interpretat… |
| (Treatise, 635-6) Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head. (Treatise, 635-6) This quote teIls u… |
| (Treatise, 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …he neither knows how to correct his former opinions ((nor how to render them consistent." (Treatise, 633) In the final analys… |
| (Treatise, 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … of the Treatise. 15At this point Hume refers the reader to that section of the Treatise (Treatise, 260) where he uses princ… |
| (Treatise, 10-15) Citation pattern | T 1.1.3.4 to T 1.1.6.1 (19 paragraphs) | …ons (namely, resernblance, contiguity and causation) which produce associations of ideas. (Treatise, 10-15) When Hume discusses… |
| (Treatise, 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ausation, andmust drop contiguity, which has little or no influence in the present case." (Treatise, 260) For a plausible exp… |
| (Treatise, 241) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …external existence, can ever represent what are specifically different from one another." (Treatise, 241) In short, Hume beli… |
| (Treatise, 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …se to their correspondent ideas; and these ideas in their turn produce other impressions. (Treatise, 261) The principle weak… |
| (Treatise, 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …erceptions by frequently "placing ... resembling perceptions in the chain of thought...." (Treatise, 261). See D. Pears, Hume… |
| (Treatise, 5) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1 (3 paragraphs) | …he chain of thought...." (Treatise, 261). See D. Pears, Hume's System, 147. impressions. (Treatise, 5) If ideas do not ca… |
| (Treatise, 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …in the principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness." (Treatise, 636) After Hume offers … |
| (Treatise, 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | …peration we attribute a simplicity to it. [that is, to the compound, related object] .... (Treatise, 263) This account is a … |
| (Treatise, 221) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | … and other qualities, combin'd in a peach or melon, are con ceiv'd to form one thing.... (Treatise, 221) The emphasis on th… |
| (Treatise, 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …tation allows us to understandwhyHumewould say that he feels "involv'din ... a labyrinth" (Treatise, 633) whenever he reviews… |
| (Treatise, 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …is opinions concerning personal identity he does not know "how to render them consistent" (Treatise, 633); for if our analysi… |