Inukai, Yumiko · 2007
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem
Inukai, Yumiko (2007). “Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 24(3): 255–274.
65
citations of the Treatise
119
paragraphs reached
57%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.45
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 31%Body and the external world 48%Immateriality of the soul 21%
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 1.4.3.3 10 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.6.16 5 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Waxman 1992 similarity 0.98
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.98
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Green 1999 similarity 0.97
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity - Kail 2007 similarity 0.97
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Swain 2006 similarity 0.97
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 2: Of the ideas of space and time
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 |
|---|---|---|
| T App. 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ss, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent. (T App. 10, SBN 633)3 This pa… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … lies. Rather, it lies in something presupposed in his psychological account presented in I.iv.6. Hume's psychologic… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …erceptions. ## I. Hume's Account of Personal Identity and Confession in the Appendix In I.iv.6, Hume puts forth th… |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …time. He argues that there is no impression that corresponds to such an idea of the self (T 1.4.6.2, SBN 251-252),4 and… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …1-252),4 and that we are in fact only aware of a succession of ever-changing perceptions (T 1.4.6.3, SBN 252). He concl… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …eed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (T 1.4.6.4, SBN 252). Second, … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … associated perceptions. In the Appendix to the Treatise, Hume restates the arguments of I.iv.6. He reiterates that… |
| T App. 15 Citation pattern | App. 15 | …en concludes again that it is the composition of those perceptions "which forms the self (T App. 15, SBN 634), and that… |
| T App. 19 Citation pattern | App. 19 | …4), and that "we have no notion of [the self] distinct from the particular percep tions" (T App. 19, SBN 635). He seems… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …or he believes that his account of the self so far is supported by "sufficient evidence" (T App. 20, SBN 635). After t… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …the ideas of them are felt to be connected together, and naturally introduce each other. (T App. 20, SBN 635) As is ev… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …r consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head" (T App. 20, SBN 635-636). Inst… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …nces"; (ii) "that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences" (T App. 21, SBN 636).5 Despite… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …sistency" between the two principles, he claims that he cannot "renounce either of them" (T App. 21, SBN 636). ## II. … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …r element which Hume takes to be essential in his account of personal identity offered in I.iv.6 of the Treatise and… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …vilege of a sceptic, and confess, that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding" (T App. 21, SBN 636). Thus, th… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case" (T App. 21, SBN 636).8 With t… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | … would not explain what makes us overlook the "characters of distinction and difference" (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 259) of those … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …k closely at his use of the associative principles in his account of personal identity in I.iv.6, it will become cle… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …associations are not invoked to explain the binding of all perceptions into a bundle. In I.iv.6, asking the questio… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | … together" and a merely felt connection that "associates their ideas in the imagination" (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 259). Rejectin… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …onnection, Hume endorses the latter which we only feel "among the ideas we form of them" (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 259). This fel… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … The associative principles are not introduced as binding principles to yield a bundle in I.iv.6; rather, they are i… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …east of another, and observe that succession of perceptions, which constitutes his mind" (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 260). He point… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …ly because this person "preserves the memory of a considerable part of past perceptions" (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 260). Due to t… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | … from one link to another" and makes "the whole seem like the continuance of one object" (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 261). There ar… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …not his. Hume claims that "the case is the same whether we consider ourselves or others" (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 261). Thus, si… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …re felt to be connected together, and naturally introduce each other" in the imagination (T App. 20, SBN 635). It is on… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ly presupposed, but also required, by his account of the psychological mechanism given in I.iv.6. His account of the… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …the "Bundling Problem." As previously mentioned, Hume's analysis of personal identity in I.iv.6 proceeds in two ste… |
| T App. 17 Citation pattern | App. 17 | … and sensation . . . must be the same with self; since the one cannot survive the other" (T App. 17, SBN 635). Having … |
| T 1.4.6.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.8 | … part" is added to the "mass of matter, of which the parts are contiguous and connected" (T 1.4.6.8, SBN 255), Hume obs… |
| T 1.4.6.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.8 | …on, and are apt to imagine, that 'tis nothing but a continu'd survey of the same object. (T 1.4.6.8, SBN 256) In the n… |
| T 1.4.6.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.9 | … that it does not disrupt our smooth progress of the thought before and after the change (T 1.4.6.9, SBN 256). He also … |
| T 1.4.6.10-12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …al changes to parts o? a body and relations of parts by reference to some common purpose (T 1.4.6.10-12, SBN 256-257). In a… |
| T 1.3.14.1 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.1 | …and to consider it in a stronger light upon account of its relation to the first object. (T 1.3.14.1, SBN 156) At first… |
| T 1.1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.2 | …i.e., resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect] produce an association among ideas" (T 1.1.4.2, SBN 11), and "[t]h… |
| T 1.1.5.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.5.1 | …used ... for that quality, by which two ideas are connected together in the imagination" (T 1.1.5.1, SBN 13). These rem… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …butes to its production, by producing the relation of resemblance among the perceptions. (T 1.4.6.18, SBN 260-261) Here… |
| I.iv.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …, resemblance) holding among them. In speaking of our identity ascription to an object in I.iv.3, Hume talks as if t… |
| T 1.4.3.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.3 | … will no more perceive the change, than if it contemplated the same unchangeable object. (T 1.4.3.3, SBN 220; my emphas… |
| T 1.3.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.3.6.16 | …tis only so far as it is a natural relation" that it "produces an union among our ideas" (T 1.3.6.16, SBN 94). Bearing t… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ndle. This is exactly the point from which Hume starts his analysis of the human mind in I.iv.6 of the Treatise, an… |
| T 1.1.2.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.2.1 | …t as he allows causes of impressions of sensation to remain "unknown" and "inexplicable" (T 1.1.2.1; 1.3.5.2, SBN 7; 84… |
| 1.3.5.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.5.2 | …ows causes of impressions of sensation to remain "unknown" and "inexplicable" (T 1.1.2.1; 1.3.5.2, SBN 7; 84).15 Howe… |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ronger claim as to the nature of perceptions: perceptions are all distinct existences. In I.iv.2, Hume explains the … |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | … relations, with that connected mass of percep tions, which constitute a thinking being. (T 1.4.2.39, SBN 207) Hume is … |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …without belonging to any mind, that is, "a heap or collection of different percep tions" (T 1.4.2.39, SBN 207). This sug… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …ay exist by itself," individual perceptions are substances; they can exist by themselves (T 1.4.5.5, SBN 233). Percepti… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …t compose a mind" is reflected on, "the ideas of them are felt to be connected together" (T App. 20, SBN 635). It is cl… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … feel a connexion or a determination of the thought, to pass from one object to another. (T App. 20, SBN 635; my emphas… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …so he even goes on to say that this part of his account is in fact "a promising as pect" (T App. 20, SBN 635). Neverthe… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …n, the principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T App. 20, SBN 635-636). Hume… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … with; for, as he earlier defined "consciousness" as "a reflected thought or perception" (T App. 20, SBN 635), a bundle… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …d put a unified bundle of perceptions in place, and Hume could then proceed as he does in I.iv.6 to provide his psyc… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …rivilege of a sceptic" and admit that "this difficulty is too hard for my understanding" (T App. 21, SBN 636). ## IV. … |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …t "others, perhaps, or myself upon more mature reflection, may discover some hypothesis" (T App. 21, SBN 636) that will… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …nia, and above all, Gary Hatfield. 1. From here on, this section will be referred to as "I.iv.6." 2. According to H… |
| T 1.4.2.47 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (4 paragraphs) | …e are certain, are per ceptions, which being immediately present to us by consciousness" (T 1.4.2.47, SBN 212). He divid… |
| SBN 212 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …n, are per ceptions, which being immediately present to us by consciousness" (T 1.4.2.47, SBN 212). He divides percep… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …as "SBN" followed by page numbers. 4. Hume uses "self and "human mind" interchangeably in I.iv.6. 5. A connection is… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …discussion of personal identity where he con trasts our observing "some real bond among" (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 259) our perce… |
| T 1.1.3.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.3.1 | …defines the imagination as one of the two faculties "by which we repeat our impressions" (T 1.1.3.1, SBN 8) as ideas. T… |
| T 1.3.14.31 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.31 | …atural relation; either as a comparison of two ideas, or as an association betwixt them" (T 1.3.14.31, SBN 169-170). 13. … |
| 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …at "what we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions" (T. 1.4.2.39, SBN 207). Undoubte… |