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Loeb, L. E. · 2009

Review P. J. E. Kail Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy

Loeb, L. E. (2009). “Review P. J. E. Kail Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy.” Mind 118(469): 181–185.

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citations of the Treatise
175
paragraphs reached
1%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.56
surprise of rarest citation

Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.

Theme mix

Self and the passions 2%Causation and the Appendix problem 39%Body and the external world 49%Immateriality of the soul 11%

Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.

Its rarest citations

Nearest papers

  • Rocknak 2019 similarity 0.75
    Hume and the External World
  • Strawson 2011 similarity 0.51
    The Evident Connexion
  • Ainslie 2009 similarity 0.50
    Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail
  • Nathanson 1976 similarity 0.49
    Humes Second Thoughts on the Self
  • Butchvarov 1959 similarity 0.41
    The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy

Compare with Rocknak 2019 →

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
1.1.1 Of the Origin of our Ideas
1.1.6 Of modes and substances
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
1.2.4 Objections answer'd
1.2.5 The same subject continu'd
1.2.6 Of the idea of existence, and of external existence
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
1.3.4 Of the component parts of our reasonings concerning cause and effect
1.3.5 Of the impressions of the senses and memory
1.3.6 Of the inference from the impression to the idea
1.3.8 Of the causes of belief
1.3.13 Of unphilosophical probability
1.3.14 Of the idea of necessary connexion
1.3.15 Rules by which to judge of causes and effects
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
1.4.2 Of scepticism with regard to the senses
1.4.4 Of the modern philosophy
1.4.5 Of the immateriality of the soul
1.4.7 Conclusion of this book
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices
3.3.1 Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices

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.

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(T p. 67)
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T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs)…ns are present to the mind Mind, Vol. 118 . 469 . January 2009 ? Mind Association 2009 (T p. 67); (2) perceptions th…
(T pp. 210-11)
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T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs)…mselves possessing a continued and independent existence?false, as shown by double vision (T pp. 210-11); (3) the double exi…
(T pp. 215, 218)
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T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs)… the double existence of perceptions and objects?'monstrous', 'loaded with ... absurdity' (T pp. 215, 218). Indeed. The vulgar…
(pp. 16, 53)
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T 1.1.6.1 to T 1.2.5.1 (4 paragraphs)…eived rests on a propensity to mistake resembling but distinct objects for identical ones (pp. 16, 53). Philosophers recog…
(T pp. 217-18)
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T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs)…ble upon any system'?'popular' (vulgar) or 'philosophical'?'to defend ... our ... senses' (T pp. 217-18). This result contri…
I.iv.4
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T 1.4.4 (16 paragraphs)…. January 2009 ? Mind Association 2009 ean bodies?false, since a Berkelian argument, in I.iv.4, 'utterly annihilat…
(T p. 228)
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T 1.4.4 (4 paragraphs)…n 2009 ean bodies?false, since a Berkelian argument, in I.iv.4, 'utterly annihilate [s]' (T p. 228) material objects; (…
(T pp. 188, 218)
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T 1.4.2 (5 paragraphs)…ted by resemblance or causation to perceptions?too thin a conception to merit dis cussion (T pp. 188, 218); (3c) a second set …
(T p. 218)
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T 1.4.2 (2 paragraphs)…8); (3c) a second set of perceptions?dismissed as items philosophers 'arbitrarily invent' (T p. 218). The only sufficien…
I.iv.2
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T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs)…hesis that there are 'contradictions ... in every system concerning external objects'?per I.iv.2, 'and in the idea o…
I.iv.4
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T 1.4.4 (16 paragraphs)…ning external objects'?per I.iv.2, 'and in the idea of matter' (T p. 232; cf. p. 633)?per I.iv.4. There is no satisf…
(T p. 231)
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T 1.4.4 (2 paragraphs)…. Secondly, Hume's for mulation of the argument underpins a 'direct and total opposition' (T p. 231); recapitulating thi…
(T p. 266)
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T 1.4.7 (4 paragraphs)… development, 'two ... equally natural and necessary' opera tions are 'directly contrary' (T p. 266). The natural propen…
(T pp. 581-2)
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T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs)…uncorrected, sympathy-driven evaluation, we 'fix' on a 'steady and general' point of view (T pp. 581-2). The perspective of…
(pp. 84-7, 90-2)
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T 1.3.4.3 to T 1.3.6.13 (16 paragraphs)…cal' necessity grounded in essences that support a priori inferences from cause to effect (pp. 84-7, 90-2). Hume thinks humans…
(T p. 170)
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T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs)…ion is strong. In the first place, Hume finds his two definitions of 'cause' 'defective' (T p. 170) or 'imperfect' (L. …
(T p. 170)
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T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs)…oke. Hume shrugs his shoulders; he challenges readers to 'substitute a juster definition' (T p. 170), and provides corre…
(T pp. 4,104-5,175)
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T 1.1.1.5 to T 1.3.15.12 (10 paragraphs)…4). Hume is aware, however, that some regularities 'arise from chance', are 'acci dental' (T pp. 4,104-5,175); in Liii.13, non-ac…
(T pp. 149,150)
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T 1.3.13 (5 paragraphs)… 4,104-5,175); in Liii.13, non-accidental regularities are more 'extensive' and 'general' (T pp. 149,150). This points in the…
I.iii.14
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T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)…juncture where projection, broadly construed, comes into play.) In the two definitions in I.iii.14 (T p. 169; cf. E p.…
(T p. 233)
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T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs)…lizes that the conceivability, and hence pos sibility, of perceptions existing separately (T p. 233) seems at odds with …
(T pp. 207, 210-11)
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T 1.4.2 (7 paragraphs)…p. 132,137,138). This would be unfortunate; the two arguments appear six paragraphs apart (T pp. 207, 210-11), so that the incons…
I.iv.2
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T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs)…, so that the inconsistency surfaces, without Hume taking any note of it, at the heart of I.iv.2. Any whiff of contr…
(T p. 170)
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T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs)…inely tailored explanations. For example, the causal analysis inherits the one 'delicacy' (T p. 170) or 'inconvenience' …