Noonan, Harold · 2012
The Self and Personal Identity
Noonan, Harold (2012). “The Self and Personal Identity.” In The Continuum Companion to Hume, ed. Bailey, Alan; OBrien, Dan, 167.
53
citations of the Treatise
43
paragraphs reached
40%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.76
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 36%Immateriality of the soul 64%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.3.9.19 2 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.4.4 5 other papers reach it
- T 1.2.6.7 8 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Pitson 2013 similarity 0.94
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self - Yang 1998 similarity 0.92
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Patten 1976 similarity 0.92
Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant - Rocknak 2012 similarity 0.92
Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects - Mcintyre 2009 similarity 0.91
Hume and the Problem 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 2: Of the ideas of space and time
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 |
|---|---|---|
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …n object which 'remains invariable and uninterrupted thro' a suppos'd variation of time' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 253). This is Hum… |
| THN 1.4.2.28 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.28 | …). This is Hume's attempt to define an idea which is 'a medium betwixt unity and number' (THN 1.4.2.28 / 200), or 'more pr… |
| THN 1.4.2.29 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.29 | …ly speaking', as he adds, 'is either of them, according to the view in which we take it' (THN 1.4.2.29 / 201). Strictly sp… |
| THN 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …ent origin, but must proceed from a like operation of the imagination upon like objects. (THN 1.4.6.15 / 259; emphasis add… |
| THN 1.3.9.19 Citation pattern | T 1.3.9.19 | …eason, I mean the same faculty excluding only our demonstrative and probable reasonings. (THN 1.3.9.19 / 117) Hume has app… |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …cular, nor find anything invariable and uninterrupted to justify our notion of identity. (THN 1.4.6.6 / 254-5) Hume indic… |
| THN 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …f something mysterious and inexplicable, or at least with a propensity to such fictions. (THN 1.4.6.7 / 255) 3. THE REIFI… |
| THN 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …elf at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. (THN 1.4.6.2 / 252) Hume writes … |
| THN 1.2.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.2.6.7 | …tion ('to hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see, all this is nothing but to perceive' (THN 1.2.6.7 / 67). But if this … |
| THN 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …his is the case. Indeed, he thinks that everything which can be conceived is a substance (THN 1.4.5.5 / 233). This is a c… |
| THN 1.4.5.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.6 | …es him 'absolutely condemn' the question of the materiality or immateriality of the soul (THN 1.4.5.6 / 234). The first a… |
| THN 1.4.5.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.2 | …g the material or immaterial substances in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere' (THN 1.4.5.2 / 232). He first ch… |
| THN 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …stence. They are, therefore, substances, as far as this definition explains a substance. (THN 1.4.5.5 / 233) This argumen… |
| THN 1.4.3.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.7 | …t, not only from every other quality, but from that unintelligible chimera of substance' (THN 1.4.3.7 / 222). But if so, … |
| THN 1.4.5.17 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.17 | …will serve to justify all those sentiments for which Spinoza is so universally infamous' (THN 1.4.5.17 / 240) and that thi… |
| THN 1.4.5.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.21 | … and [are] so much alike, that . . . any absurdity in one . . . is . . . common to both. (THN 1.4.5.21 / 242-3; emphasis a… |
| THN 1.4.5.27-8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …. . which will not be applicable to a like supposition concerning impressions and ideas. (THN 1.4.5.27-8 / 245-6) There coul… |
| THN 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …from any other that the idea of self is deriv'd; and consequently there is no such idea' (THN 1.4.6.2 / 2512). Hume goes … |
| THN 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | … After what manner therefore do they belong to self; and how are they connected with it? (THN 1.4.6.3 / 252) It is immedi… |
| App. 14 Citation pattern | App. 14 | …monism), 'this proposition therefore can never be absurd with regard to perceptions' (THN App. 14 / 634). In the imme… |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ce . . . . There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different' (THN 1.4.6.4 / 253). For the ide… |
| THN 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …ur notion of diversity, it can only be by [a] mistake that we ascribe to it an identity' (THN 1.4.6.7 / 255). The only qu… |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …next to ascribe to it a perfect identity, and regard it as invariable and uninterrupted. (THN 1.4.6.6 / 254) This identit… |
| THN 1.4.2.34 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.34 | …er, in the second situation there is the 'same uninterrupted passage of the imagination' (THN 1.4.2.34 / 203) as in the fi… |
| THN 1.4.2.34 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.34 | … smooth and uninterrupted progress of the imagination, as attends the view of' the first (THN 1.4.2.34 / 204). But 'whatev… |
| THN 1.4.2.32 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.32 | …as place the mind in the same disposition, or in similar ones, are apt to be confounded' (THN 1.4.2.32 / 203). Thus I conf… |
| THN 1.4.2.34 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.34 | … I do the same with the latter situation and 'confound the succession with the identity' (THN 1.4.2.34 / 204). But Hume in… |
| THN 1.4.2.36 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.36 | …Thus I unite the 'broken appearances' by means of 'the fiction of a continu'd existence' (THN 1.4.2.36 / 205). That is, I … |
| THN 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …: 'the continu'd existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction' (THN 1.4.2.40 / 208). Thus 'we ma… |
| THN 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …' (THN 1.4.2.40 / 208). Thus 'we may easily indulge our inclination to that supposition' (THN 1.4.2.40 / 208). In doing so… |
| THN 1.4.2.24 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.24 | …se interrupted perceptions are connected by a real existence of which we are insensible' (THN 1.4.2.24 /199), and arrive a… |
| THN 1.4.2.45 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (3 paragraphs) | …riments familiar to philosophers (but apparently not known to the vulgar) establish this (THN 1.4.2.45 / 211). But even ph… |
| THN 1.4.2.46 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (3 paragraphs) | …tains all the difficulties of the vulgar system, with others that are peculiar to itself (THN 1.4.2.46 / 211). The second … |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …ancient philosophers merely run into the notion of substance to 'disguise the variation' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 254). Hume explai… |
| THN 1.4.4.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.4.4 | …4). Hume explains the genesis of the belief in 'substance, or original and first matter' (THN 1.4.4.4 / 220) as follows: … |
| THN 1.4.4.3-4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.4 (2 paragraphs) | …ions; and this unintelligible something it calls substance or original and first matter. (THN 1.4.4.3-4 / 220) There are th… |
| THN 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …he thought along a train of connected ideas according to the principles above explain'd' (THN 1.4.6.16 / 260). All that re… |
| THN 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …y from one link to another, and make the whole seem like the continuance of one object? (THN 1.4.6.18 / 260-1) Given this… |
| THN 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …ent to Locke, 'memory not only discovers the identity but contributes to its production' (THN 1.4.6.18 / 261). But we do n… |
| THN 1.4.6.17 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.17 | …to other persons, who propagate the same republic in the incessant changes of its parts. (THN 1.4.6.17 / 261) When we thin… |
| THN 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …dentity, by shewing us the relation of cause and effect among our different perceptions' (THN 1.4.6.20 / 262). According t… |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …n; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance to disguise the variation' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 254). Our belief … |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same perhaps for one moment. (THN 1.4.6.4 / 253)) And, like t… |
| THN 1.4.7.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.13 | …riments to which the non-philosophical (in particular, the 'honest gentlemen' of England (THN 1.4.7.13 / 272)) may not be … |
| THN 1.4.6.23 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.23 | …o argument that Hume's supplementary account of our belief in the simplicity of the self (THN 1.4.6.23 / 263) is to be com… |
| THN 1.4.3.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.5 | …aterial substrata since it is just a summary of the account of that given in section III (THN 1.4.3.5 / 221). 6. THE LAB… |
| THN 1.4.5.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.1 | …s not perplexed with any such contradictions as those we have discovered in the natural' (THN 1.4.5.1 / 232). By the time… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …he seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings cou'd have induced me to receive it. (THN App. 20 / 635) Again: 'But … |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …sciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head'. (THN App. 20 / 635) As to Hume's… |
| THN 1.4.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.4.1 | …a. Like the latter, then, it should easily be subverted by a due contrast and opposition (THN 1.4.4.1 / 225). In fact, in… |
| THN 1.4.5.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.12 | …ived as related by cause and effect as a result of our disposition to complete the union (THN 1.4.5.12 / 237), we are not … |
| THN 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …eness, and uninterruptedness, are such as to consist of a succession of related objects' (THN 1.4.6.7 / 255), Hume identi… |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ceed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement' (THN 1.4.6.4 / 252) that we thin… |