Kail, P. J. E. · 2007
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy
Kail, P. J. E. (2007). “Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy.” key chapter is 6.
54
citations of the Treatise
63
paragraphs reached
55%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.63
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 16%Body and the external world 28%Immateriality of the soul 56%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.1.7.17 4 other papers reach it
- T 1.1.4.4 7 other papers reach it
- T 1.1.7.3 6 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Inukai 2007 similarity 0.97
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.95
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.95
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Humber 1995 similarity 0.94
Humes Invisible Self - Green 1999 similarity 0.94
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity
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
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Appendix
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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| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ss, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent' (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). There is… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …nes the argument that induces him 'to deny the proper identity and simplicity of a self' (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). Here sce… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … summary. 6.2 The Projective Explanation of the Belief in a Substantial Self The title of T 1.4.6-'Of personal identi… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ossest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence thro' the whole course of our lives' (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253), when int… |
| 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). One reas… |
| T 1.4.6.1-2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …s pleaded for them, nor have we any idea of self, after the manner it is here explain'd. (T 1.4.6.1-2; SBN 251) We have n… |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …ed to 'continue invariably' but there is no impression that is 'constant and invariable' (T 1.4.6.2; SBN 251). To detec… |
| SBN 252 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …hat the self is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions' (T.1.4.6.4; SBN 252), and we shall look… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …ciple, that connects the objects together, and prevents their interruption or variation' (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). This own… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …er, is very similar to the mental disposition involved in viewing 'one continu'd object' (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). We are p… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …hese different related objects are in effect the same, however interrupted and variable' (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). To do so… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation. (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254) So the be… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …leness and uninterruptedness, are such as to consist of a succession of related objects. (T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255) Hume addr… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …nections are not observed, they cannot be part of the input that triggers the projection (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259). The rela… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …9) of cause and effect, and mutually produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other. (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) So percep… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | … this simplicity, and the center of all the different parts and qualities of the object. (T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) Hence our… |
| T
1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind. (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253) and: it … |
| T Abstract 28 Citation pattern | Abs. 28 | …ose the mind, not belong to it. The mind is not a substance in which perceptions inhere. (T Abstract 28; SBN 658) But now w… |
| 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) This is a… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …n of the substance construed in that traditional way as 'that which may exist by itself' (T 1.4.5.5; SBN 233). There ar… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …tence. They are, therefore, substances, as far as this definition explains a substance. (T 1.4.5.5; SBN 233) So we ha… |
| T 1.4.5.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.6 | …ance is entirely different from a substance. We have, therefore, no idea of a substance' (T 1.4.5.6; SBN 234). Thus the… |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case. (T Appendix 21; SBN 636) This is H… |
| T 1.4.2.45 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (3 paragraphs) | …ents' to convince us that 'our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence' (T 1.4.2.45; SBN 210), and that… |
| SBN 210 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …vince us that 'our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence' (T 1.4.2.45; SBN 210), and that the 'doc… |
| T 1.4.2.44 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (4 paragraphs) | …ndependent existence of our sensible perceptions is contrary to the plainest experience' (T 1.4.2.44; SBN 210). 8 But hi… |
| SBN 210 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …xistence of our sensible perceptions is contrary to the plainest experience' (T 1.4.2.44; SBN 210). 8 But his reasoni… |
| T Appendix 11 Citation pattern | App. 11 | …r substance as simple and unchangeable and hence we have 'no idea of them in that sense' (T Appendix 11; SBN 633). The moda… |
| T Appendix 12 Citation pattern | App. 12 | …s separately existent, and may exist separately, without any contradiction or absurdity. (T Appendix 12; SBN 634) We have n… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …3) the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings cou'd have induc'd me to receive it. (T Appendix 20; SBN 635) The probl… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …of connection 'that unite[s] our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness' (T Appendix 20; SBN 635-6). The pr… |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | …. . . whatever objects are distinguishable are separable by the thought and imagination' (T 1.1.7.3; SBN 18). This soun… |
| T 1.1.7.17 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.17 | … meant by a distinction of reason, since it implies neither a difference nor separation? (T 1.1.7.17; SBN 24-5) Hume thi… |
| 2.2.1 Citation pattern | T 2.2.1 (9 paragraphs) | …emselves be objects that are phenomenally distinct. Hume, recall, reifies experiences (s. 2.2.1). Phenomenal differ… |
| T 1.3.14.29 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.29 | …as that among external objects, and is not known to us any other way than by experience' (T 1.3.14.29; SBN 169). Any piec… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …eeming evidence' that induced him to 'deny the proper identity and simplicity of a self' (T Appendix 10; SBN 633) leads to … |
| T Appendix 19 Citation pattern | App. 19 | …o the fact that we have no notion of the mind 'distinct from the particular perceptions' (T Appendix 19; SBN 635). But it a… |
| T 1.1.4.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.4 | … put it mildly). Causation, as one of those principles, is for Hume 'the most extensive' (T 1.1.4.4; SBN 12), and yet i… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | … him to deny 'the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being' (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). For that… |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case. (T Appendix 21; SBN 636) This tell… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …which binds them together and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity' (T Appendix 20; SBN 635), and one … |
| T 1.4.2.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.7 | …were to suppose, that even where we are most intimately conscious, we might be mistaken. (T 1.4.2.7; SBN 190) (p.141) B… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …hich seem to attend every explication, that human reason can give of the material world. (T Appendix 10; SBN 633) Indeed, B… |
| T 2.2.6.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6.2 | …ve always hop'd to keep clear of those contradictions which attended every other system. (T 2.2.6.2; SBN 366 (my emphas… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …eparately consider'd, and appears not to have any more connection with any other object. (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60 (my emp… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …ut no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding. (T Appendix 20; SBN 635 (my emphas… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | … personal identity' 'induc'd [him] to deny the proper identity and simplicity of a self' (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). 2. Since… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … or different existences, which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect' (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). 3. But h… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …ther, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity' is 'very defective' (T Appendix 20; SBN 635). 4. Accor… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …ut the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings could have induc'd me to receive it' (T Appendix 20; SBN 635). It is th… |
| SBN 77 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (5 paragraphs) | …on of what it is we desire to know, when we endeavour at a conception of it' (EHU 7.2.29; SBN 77). And that is right… |
| T 1.4.6.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.21 | …far as the relation of parts gives rise to some fiction or imaginary principle of union' (T 1.4.6.21; SBN 262). For a re… |
| T 1.1.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.3 | … possible to separate what is not distinguishable or distinguish what is not different?' (T 1.1.7.3; SBN 18), which cle… |
| T 1.1.1.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.11 | …eparation in the distinctness of objects. (11) Hume does talk of secondary perceptions at T 1.1.1.11; SBN 6, but notice … |