Patten, S. C. · 1976
Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant
Patten, S. C. (1976). “Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant.” Hume Studies 2(2): 59–75.
10
citations of the Treatise
19
paragraphs reached
52%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.17
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 0%Body and the external world 100%Immateriality of the soul 0%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.2.44 20 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.43 21 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.45 20 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Yang 1998 similarity 0.99
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Rocknak 2012 similarity 0.99
Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.92
The Self and Personal Identity - Green 1999 similarity 0.92
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.92
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| " (261) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …is spiriting away of the Cartesian soul substance leaving his "true idea of the human mind" (261) as a collection of … |
| (635) Checked by model | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ut the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings cou' d have indue' d me to receive it (635). After additional … |
| " (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … cites as an example the fact that "our impressions give rise to their correspondent ideas" (261). And if we are to l… |
| (261) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …here the changes of this 'variable object' are the changes of members and changes of laws (261) . But here, surely,… |
| " (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ges of laws (261) . But here, surely, "the reciprocal ties of government and subordination" (261) insofar as they do … |
| " (207) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …Hume: "...there is no absurdity in separating any particular perception from the mind; ..." (207) . What a remark lik… |
| " (210) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ents, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence" (210) . In other words, e… |
| (260) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …oncatenation of perceptions, some in causal relations with others, some resembling others (260) . But now note tha… |
| (257) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …uests for explanations of the unity of a thing. That is to say when I ask, as Hume does (257) , about the unity o… |
| " (210) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …e independent existence of our sensible perceptions is contrary to the plainest experience" (210) . For a lucid criti… |