Robison, Wade L. · 1974
Hume on Personal Identity
Robison, Wade L. (1974). “Hume on Personal Identity.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 12(2): 181–193.
39
citations of the Treatise
68
paragraphs reached
42%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.07
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 36%Body and the external world 18%Immateriality of the soul 46%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.3.14.21 11 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.5.20 n46 16 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.14.28 10 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Swain 2006 similarity 0.96
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.96
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.96
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.95
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.94
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (T200-201) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (8 paragraphs) | … "mean, that the object existent at one time is the same with itself existent at another" (T200-201). A condition then f… |
| (T201) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ableness and uninterruptedness of any object, thro' a suppos'd variation of t ime . . . " (T201). We can intelligibl… |
| (T633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" (T633). Humo clearly think… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ition that if we have any such idea of the self, it must arise from "some one impression" (T251). The stronger argum… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …on, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference" (T251). It follows, Hume c… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …magine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our S~.LF" are just wrong (T251). This argument is a… |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ld be "a manifest contradiction and absurdity" to suppose one has an impression of a self (T251). What is contradict… |
| (T251-252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.4 (5 paragraphs) | …from any other, that the idea of self is deriv'd; and consequently there is no such idea. (T251-252) If one is to have … |
| (T251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …) it remains the same throughout its existence; and (c) we are intimately conscious of it (T251). What Hume denies i… |
| (T66) Citation pattern | T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) | …e "there is no impression nor idea of any k i nd . . , that is not eonceiv'd as existent" (T66). But, "So far from … |
| (T66) Citation pattern | T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) | …. I do not think there are any two distinct impressions, which are inseparably conjoin'd" (T66). Our idea of existe… |
| (T66-67) Citation pattern | T 1.2.6 (9 paragraphs) | …of any object, makes no addition to it. Whatever we conceive, we conceive to be existent" (T66-67). Butchvarov conclud… |
| (T172) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs) | …can never have reason to believe that any object exists, of which we cannot form an idea" (T172). In fact, we cannot… |
| (T253, 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ceed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (T253, 252). II. It is at this… |
| (T252-253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …t mislead us because "they are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind" (T252-253). He then turns from… |
| (T257) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …parts having a common end and being mutually dependent upon and connected with each other (T257). But there are only… |
| (T259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …inds our several perceptions together, or only associates their ideas in the imagination" (T259). 1.~ The first poss… |
| (T259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … Hume reiects because "the understanding never observes any real connexion among objects" (T259). TM The second mean… |
| (T260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e "uniting principles in the ideal world" of contiguity, resemblance, or cause and effect (T260). The first Hume dro… |
| (T260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ffect (T260). The first Hume drops as having "little or no influence in the present case" (T260), and regarding the … |
| (T261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …r changes he endures, his several parts are still connected by the relation of causation. (T261) But though causati… |
| (T260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …n our perceptions. Each of us has "the memory of a considerable part of past perceptions" (T260). Memory, however, i… |
| (T260-261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | … is an image of, memory thus produces "the relation of resemblance among the perceptions" (T260-261) . 17 These are the… |
| (T259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …tious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies" (T259). The parts we take … |
| (T262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …nces, and actions, which we have entirely forgot, but suppose in general to have existed" (T262). 18 The relations … |
| (T635-636) Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head" (T635-636). Having ended in th… |
| (T255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …of something mysterious and inexplicable, or at least with a propensity to such fictions" (T255). A dispute concerni… |
| (T255, 262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ly a dispute of words" when we make such a mistake, but is "merely verbal" when we do not (T255, 262). The reason for the… |
| (T262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …y dispute concerning the time, when they acquire or lose a title to the name of identity" (T262). That is, since the… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …he mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wouM be no difficulty in the case. (T636) - III. The main di… |
| (T635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …, the ideas of them are felt to be connected togther, and naturally introduce each other" (T635). The difficulty th… |
| (T165) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (3 paragraphs) | …"that propensity") to conceive or believe an effect upon conceiving or perceiving a cause (T165), and one must wonde… |
| (T172, 70) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.35 to T 1.3.1.4 (6 paragraphs) | …rs of obiects in order to discover the constant conjunction that activates the propensity (T172, 70) and upon the mind's… |
| (T168) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (3 paragraphs) | …ensity (T172, 70) and upon the mind's mistaking its propensity for an external connection (T168). 2a The explanation… |
| (T204) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …rnal objects differs in its details, the mind's mistaking e.g. one propensity for another (T204), but the same need … |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …rther "principles, ~hat unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T636), and the most plaus… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ature reflexions, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions" (T636). But one should not… |
| (T241) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …y suppose, but never can conceive a specific difference betwixt an object and impression" (T241). We cannot conceive… |
| (T242) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | …s still possible, that the object may differ from it [the impression] in that particular" (T242). This curious notio… |