Inukai, Yumiko · 2012
Jamess Answer to Hume The Empirical Basis of the Unified Self
Inukai, Yumiko (2012). “Jamess Answer to Hume The Empirical Basis of the Unified Self.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20(2): 363–389.
26
citations of the Treatise
25
paragraphs reached
20%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.37
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 74%Body and the external world 1%Immateriality of the soul 26%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Kail 2008 similarity 0.71
On Humes Appropriation of Malebranche Causation and Self - Garrett 2010 similarity 0.45
Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity - Pereira 2014 similarity 0.43
Hume y la Ficcíon de Identidad Personal - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.42
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self - Loeb 1992 similarity 0.42
Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Introduction
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 |
|---|---|---|
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …and second, 'that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences' (T App. 21, SBN 636). I have a… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …mong distinct perceptions and (ii) perceptions inhere in something simple and individual (T App. 21, SBN 636). Presumab… |
| SBN xvi Citation pattern | Introduction (3 paragraphs) | … can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation' (T Intro. 7, SBN xvi). He further says: … |
| SBN xix Citation pattern | T 0.10 | …ty, and will be much superior in utility to any other human comprehension. (T Intro. 10, SBN xix) Any claim made in… |
| SBN xix Citation pattern | T 0.10 | … natural principles', as they are manifested in experience and nothing else (T Intro. 10, SBN xix). Hume is determine… |
| SBN xviii Citation pattern | Introduction (2 paragraphs) | …ce or establishing 'any principles which are not founded on that authority' (T Intro. 10, SBN xviii): 'We can give no r… |
| SBN xviii Citation pattern | Introduction (2 paragraphs) | …general and most refin'd principles, beside our experience of their reality' (T Intro. 9, SBN xviii). Hume's explanator… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …es presumed to govern the workings of the mind or 'its powers and qualities' (T Intro. 8, SBN xvii). Any explanatory p… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …t go beyond experience ought 'to be rejected as presumptuous and chimerical' (T Intro. 8, SBN xvii). His philosophical… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …cular effects, which result from its different circumstances and situations' (T Intro. 8, SBN xvii). With the constra… |
| T 1.3.14.27 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.27 | … a power or efficacy in any object, or of any real connexion betwixt causes and effects' (T 1.3.14.27, SBN 168; my emphas… |
| T 1.3.14.13 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.13 | …ity for the one object not to follow, or to be conceiv'd not to follow upon the other' 4 (T 1.3.14.13, SBN 161-2). Thus, … |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …d among' our perceptions with our feeling a connection 'among the ideas we form of them' (T 1.4.6.16, SBN 259). Hume's c… |
| T 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …e contends that a felt association 'is not to be consider'd as an inseparable connexion' (T 1.1.4.1, SBN 10), its oppos… |
| T 1.3.14.15 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.15 | … are united, or be able certainly to pronounce, that there is a connexion betwixt them. (T 1.3.14.15, SBN 162) 5 Real b… |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | … that whatever objects are distinguishable are separable by the thought and imagination' (T 1.1.7.3, SBN 18). Hume cou… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but perception' (T 1.4.6.3, SBN 252). Furtherm… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …such powers and qualities of the mind, if existing, would be 'unknown' to us (T Intro. 8, SBN xvii). It seems, moreov… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations' (T 1.4.6.4, SBN 253). A subjec… |
| T 1.1.1.2 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.2 | …asy to perceive they are not the same but are at least distinguishable from each other. (T 1.1.1.2, SBN 2) 24 In his … |
| T 1.1.3.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.3.4 | … the imagination perceives a difference among ideas, it can easily produce a separation' (T 1.1.3.4, SBN 10). Notice he… |
| T 1.1.3.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.3.4 | …t is introduced to explain the imagination's ability to 'transpose and change its ideas' (T 1.1.3.4, SBN 10). A full fo… |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | … that whatever objects are distinguishable are separable by the thought and imagination' (T 1.1.7.3, SBN 18). As the cl… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …nd may exist separately, and have no need of any thing else to support their existence. (T 1.4.5.5, SBN 233) Accordin… |
| T 1.1.2.1, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.2.1 | …perience. 25 Being consistent with 25 One example is causes of impressions of sensation (T 1.1.2.1, 1.3.5.2, SBN 7, 84). … |
| SBN 7, 84 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 to T 1.3.5.2 (6 paragraphs) | …onsistent with 25 One example is causes of impressions of sensation (T 1.1.2.1, 1.3.5.2, SBN 7, 84). ## 388 YUMIKO IN… |