Mendus, Susan · 1980
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume
Mendus, Susan (1980). “Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume.” Philosophical Quarterly 30(118): 61–68.
12
citations of the Treatise
16
paragraphs reached
61%
focus on the core paragraphs
2.71
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, mostly through the passages everyone cites.
Theme mix
Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the AppendixThemes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.6.10 35 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.11 37 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.12 37 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Schwerin 2012 similarity 1.00
Hume on the Self - Giles 1993 similarity 1.00
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Roth 1990 similarity 0.99
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.98
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.93
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …d animals, there being a great analogy betwixt it and the identity of a self or person" 7 (p. 253); and again, "the id… |
| " (p. 259) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …titious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies" (p. 259). Earlier than this,… |
| (p. 259) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …and houses and of all the compounded and changeable produc tions either of art or nature (p. 259). So not only does … |
| (p. 257) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e to some general purpose, but also a mutual dependence on, and connexion with each other (p. 257). Where we find thi… |
| " (p. 259) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …, and houses, and of all the compounded and changeable productions either of art or nature" (p. 259). Thus Hume treats p… |
| (p. 256) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ust measure the greatness of the part, not absolutely, but by its proportion to the whole (p. 256). This passage impl… |
| (p. 262) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ny dispute concerning the time, when they acquire or lose a title to the name of identity (p. 262). Again the point i… |
| (p. 261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …racter and disposition, as well as his impressions and ideas, without losing his identity (p. 261). "See R. Hall, "Hu… |
| " (pp. 255-6) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …acted from it; . . . this absolutely destroys the identity of the whole, strictly speaking" (pp. 255-6). It is important to… |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (p. 253). Hume therefore con… |
| " (p. 257) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ll the same oak; tho' there be not one particle of matter, or figure of its parts the same" (p. 257), Hume suggests that… |
| (pp. 257, 261, 262) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (7 paragraphs) | … and Spatio-Temporal Continuity (Oxford, 1967), p. 17. Related points are made elsewhere (pp. 257, 261, 262) which make it ex t… |