Kail, Peter J. E. · 2008
On Humes Appropriation of Malebranche Causation and Self
Kail, Peter J. E. (2008). “On Humes Appropriation of Malebranche Causation and Self.” European Journal of Philosophy 16(1): 55–80.
46
citations of the Treatise
54
paragraphs reached
11%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.91
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 74%Body and the external world 8%Immateriality of the soul 19%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.2.5.21 2 other papers reach it
- Abs. 2 no other paper reaches it
- Abs. 27 1 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Inukai 2012 similarity 0.71
Jamess Answer to Hume The Empirical Basis of the Unified Self - Loeb 1992 similarity 0.58
Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity - Winkler 2010 similarity 0.56
P.J.E. Kails Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Ainslie 2009 similarity 0.53
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.52
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self
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 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Abstract
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 |
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| SBN 72 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1 (2 paragraphs) | …te the opposite direction, claiming that Malebranche leads to a 'fairy land' (EHU 7.1.24; SBN 72). 13 This is by it… |
| SBN xvi Citation pattern | Introduction (3 paragraphs) | … of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man' (T Introduction 6; SBN xvi). 18 The subtitle o… |
| SBN xv Citation pattern | Introduction (3 paragraphs) | …horoughly acquainted with the extent and force of human understanding' (T Introduction 4; SBN xv). For Hume 'all the… |
| SBN xv Citation pattern | Introduction (3 paragraphs) | …e 'all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature' (T Introduction 4; SBN xv), and for Malebranc… |
| T 1.4.7.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.13 | …Whereas for Hume 'errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous' (T 1.4.7.13; SBN 272), for Male… |
| Abstract 2 Citation pattern | Abs. 2 | … where he [i.e. Hume] is authorized by experience. He talks with contempt of hypotheses' (Abstract 2; SBN 646). We start… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …ountry' by applying the improvements in natural philosophy to the mind (T Introduction 8: SBN xvii), comparing our ign… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …owers and qualities otherwise than from careful and exact experiments' (T Introduction 8; SBN xvii). Hume does not beg… |
| SBN xix Citation pattern | T 0.10 | … any claims concerning it from 'a cautious observation of human life' (T Introduction 10; SBN xix). The differences b… |
| T 1.3.14.7 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.7 | …aces in the Treatise, and is generally speaking the most cited author in this connection (T 1.3.14.7; SBN; 158n, T 1.4.5… |
| T 1.4.5.31 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.31 | …nd is generally speaking the most cited author in this connection (T 1.3.14.7; SBN; 158n, T 1.4.5.31; SBN 249n). Malebra… |
| SBN 71-73 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1.4 to T 1.3.2.2 (6 paragraphs) | …itly discussed and rejected in the Treatise (op. cit.), the first Enquiry (EHU 7.1.21-25; SBN 71-73-Malebranche is name… |
| SBN 657 Citation pattern | Abstract (3 paragraphs) | …nication of motion from observing the collision of balls (Search Elucidation 15; Abstract SBN 657 and EHU §7). Both d… |
| T 1.3.14.7 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.7 | …heir form and accidents; others by certain virtues and faculties distinct from all this. (T 1.3.14.7; SBN 158) ## Maleb… |
| T 1.3.14.25 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.25 | … observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects' (T 1.3.14.25; SBN 167). Both aut… |
| T 1.3.2.11 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.11 | …n into consideration; and that relation is of much greater importance, than any [other]' (T 1.3.2.11; SBN 77). Both agre… |
| SBN 161-162 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (4 paragraphs) | … one object not to follow, or to be conceiv'd not to follow upon the other' (T.1.3.14.13; SBN 161-162). It is this assump… |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | …Thus 'whatever objects are distinguishable are separable by the thought and imagination' (T 1.1.7.3; SBN 18). Malebranc… |
| T 1.3.14.10 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.10 | …derived idea of power, and without an idea of power we cannot ascribe power to the deity (T 1.3.14.10; SBN 160). Hume tak… |
| SBN 72-73 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1.6 to T 1.3.2.2 (4 paragraphs) | …d objects seems to have equal force to the attribution of power to the deity (EHU 7.1.25; SBN 72-73). Behind all this, … |
| Abstract 6 Citation pattern | Abs. 6 | …, and mix, and augment, and diminish our ideas, they are all derived from these sources. (Abstract 6; SBN 648) Hume thi… |
| T 1.4.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.3 | …anding are, therefore, all of them founded on the imagination, or the vivacity of ideas' (T 1.4.7.3; SBN 265). What may… |
| T 1.1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | … or in any very violent emotions of the soul, our ideas may approach to our impressions' (T 1.1.1.1; SBN 2). This stron… |
| T 1.1.1.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | …stinction used in Malebranche's work ten years prior to the publication of Locke's Essay (T 1.1.1.1n; SBN 2). Now, as w… |
| SBN 2 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1 (4 paragraphs) | …ed in Malebranche's work ten years prior to the publication of Locke's Essay (T 1.1.1.1n; SBN 2). Now, as we shall … |
| T 1.3.1.7 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1.7 | …t, Hume holds that the Copy Principle destroys 'artifice' of 'spiritual' representations (T 1.3.1.7; SBN 72). It underm… |
| T 1.3.1.7 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1.7 | …re and intellectual view, of which the superior faculties of the soul are alone capable' (T 1.3.1.7; SBN 72). This, as … |
| T 1.4.3.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | … Hume there are three 'grades of opinion': the vulgar, the false philosophy and the true (T 1.4.3.9; SBN 222). 37 The v… |
| T 1.4.3.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …r connecting objects, whereas the true philosophy has it that 'we have no idea of power' (T 1.4.3.9; SBN 223). False ph… |
| T 1.4.3.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …f it. The 'true philosophy' is to regard such disputes with 'indolence and indifference' (T 1.4.3.9; SBN 223) whereas t… |
| T 1.4.3.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …approaches nearer the sentiments of the vulgar, rather than those of mistaken knowledge' (T 1.4.3.9; SBN 222-3). Occasi… |
| T 1.3.14.10 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.10 | …racing the conclusion that we have 'no adequate idea of power or efficacy in any object' (T 1.3.14.10; SBN160). There is… |
| T 1.3.14.25 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.25 | … observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects' (T 1.3.14.25; SBN 167). To this … |
| T 1.4.3.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …nary thinkers] are apt to fancy such a separation to be in itself absurd and impossible' (T 1.4.3.9; SBN 223, my emphas… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | … OCM XII: 67). Hume famously says 'when I most intimately enter into what I call myself' (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252) he finds … |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …owers and qualities otherwise than from careful and exact experiments' (T Introduction 8; SBN xvii). To this extent Ma… |
| SBN xvii Citation pattern | Introduction (4 paragraphs) | …at the essence of mind is 'unknown to us with that of external bodies' (T Introduction 8; SBN xvii). We have no intell… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …r'd, and may exist separately; and have no need of any thing to support their existence. (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252) If the s… |
| T 1.4.6.18-19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … self. Perceptions are bundled by the associative relations of resemblance and causation (T 1.4.6.18-19; SBN 260ff). This i… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …ent but related objects and this 'resemblance is the cause of the confusion and mistake' (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253). The mind… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …s dissonance and to maintain it we feign the 'notion of a soul, and self, and substance' (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253). This ex… |
| T 1.4.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | … substance is an application of Hume's general explanation of the concept of substance in T 1.4.3 'Of antient philoso… |
| T 1.2.5.21 Citation pattern | T 1.2.5.21 | …ndeed there are few mistakes in reasoning, which do not largely borrow from that origin' (T 1.2.5.21; SBN 61). The mind … |
| T 1.2.5.20 Citation pattern | T 1.2.5.20 | …son the animal spirits, falling into the contiguous traces, present other related ideas. (T 1.2.5.20; SBN 60-61) This i… |
| T 1.2.5.20 Citation pattern | T 1.2.5.20 | …(T 1.2.5.20; SBN 60-61) This is the 'cause of many mistakes and sophisms in philosophy' (T 1.2.5.20; SBN 61). Malebranc… |
| T 1.4.2.35 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.35 | … distinct resembling objects, which is at the basis of the vulgar view of perception. See T 1.4.2.35 et seq. - 48 In the… |