Rocknak, Stefanie · 2012
Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects
Rocknak, Stefanie (2012). “Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects.”
220
citations of the Treatise
129
paragraphs reached
40%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.30
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 99%Immateriality of the soul 1%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.2.9 n35 18 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.37 n40 17 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.51 17 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Patten 1976 similarity 0.99
Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant - Yang 1998 similarity 0.99
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.92
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.92
The Self and Personal Identity - Butchvarov 1959 similarity 0.91
The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy
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
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices
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.
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| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ct identity only after we have rejected vulgar perspective II. Hume repeats this claim in 1.4.6-at least in part. T… |
| T App. 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …his claim in 1.4.6-at least in part. This occurs during his admittedly "labyrinth[ine]" ( T App. 10; SBN 633) explanati… |
| T App. 10-22 Citation pattern | Appendix (13 paragraphs) | … he famously attacks just 2 years after the publication of the Treatise in the Appendix ( T App. 10-22; SBN 633-6). Here, … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …rganized this chapter as follows: In Sect. 2 , I canvas some of the recent scholarship on 1.4.6. In Sect. 3 , we be… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …me of the recent scholarship on 1.4.6. In Sect. 3 , we begin our line by line analysis of 1.4.6, which opens with a… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …n overview of the problem concerning the "self." In Sect. 4 , we carefully examine Hume's 1.4.6 summary of his four… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …art system and the philosophical position (where, recall, both are initially presented in 1.4.2, and to some degree… |
| 1.3.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (17 paragraphs) | …al position (where, recall, both are initially presented in 1.4.2, and to some degree, in 1.3.2). This summary comp… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ses his fi rst account of the transition between the vulgar and philosophical position in 1.4.6. In Sect. 5 , we ex… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ccount of the transition between the vulgar perspective and the philosophical position in 1.4.6. In Sect. 6 , we ex… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … third account of this transition. In Sect. 7 , we take a brief look at Hume's summary of 1.4.6. In Sect. 8 , we ex… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …nd perceive some real connexion among them, there would be no dif fi culty in the case. ( T App. 21; SBN 636) However,… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …s. (pp. 188-9) (2) Rather, at best, we think we have idea of the self, and Hume's job in 1.4.6 is not to justify t… |
| (p. 190) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …ea of the self-there is nothing in our impressions that would be capable of doing as much (p. 190). (4) Moreover, this… |
| ' (p. 190) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …f thinking that we have an idea of the self cannot be a trick that is 'imposed on the mind' (p. 190)-i.e. the self -beca… |
| (190) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …' (p. 190)-i.e. the self -because this would presuppose that there is a mind, i.e. a self (190) that is being trick… |
| " (p. 191) Checked by model | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …hat we experience [must] be impressions (which have an interrupted and distinct existence)" (p. 191). However, (i) and (… |
| T 1.4.5.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.9 | … Given (1) Hume's claim that certain perceptions (e.g. smells) have no spatial location ( T 1.4.5.9; SBN 235), and (2) … |
| " (p. 578) Checked by model | T 3.3.1 (2 paragraphs) | … ourselves, according to Hume? For "we cannot re fl ect on all our perceptions at one time" (p. 578), particularly, we c… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …etation discussed, I mention them, when relevant, as I proceed through my own analysis of 1.4.6 and the Appendix . … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …nalysis of 1.4.6 and the Appendix . ## 3 An Overview of the Notion of "Self" Hume opens 1.4.6 by claiming, contra… |
| T 1.4.6.1-2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …se positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded for them. ( T 1.4.6.1-2; SBN 251; emphases … |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | … 2 ECHU II.xxvii. 9. We have no "idea of self , after the manner it is here explain'd" ( T 1.4.6.2; SBN 251). In fact,… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …that are invariable and uninterrupted, "there is no impression constant and invariable" ( T 1.4.6; SBN 251; emphasis … |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …f and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other and never exist at the same time" ( T 1.4.6.2; SBN 251-2). Percep… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …axter ( 2008 ) ; "They are the successive perceptions only , that constitute the mind." ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253; emphases … |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | … any other, that the idea of self is deriv'd; and consequently, there is no such idea." ( T 1.4.6.2; SBN 252) As a resu… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual fl ux and movement." ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 252). And thus… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …here several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away" ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253). This is … |
| 1.3.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (17 paragraphs) | …ee, we do, indeed have an idea of ourselves ( contra Robison 1974 ) . ## 3.1 A Return to 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 Not surp… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | … indeed have an idea of ourselves ( contra Robison 1974 ) . ## 3.1 A Return to 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 Not surprisingly, … |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | … just as we imagine every other object in the world, including "plants and vegetables." ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253, T 1.4.6.6… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …every other object in the world, including "plants and vegetables." ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253, T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254-5, T 1.4.6… |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …the world, including "plants and vegetables." ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253, T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254-5, T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259). Thus, it… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | ….6.5; SBN 253, T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254-5, T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259). Thus, it is reasonable to view 1.4.6 as a return to 1.3.… |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …6.6; SBN 254-5, T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259). Thus, it is reasonable to view 1.4.6 as a return to 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …6.15; SBN 259). Thus, it is reasonable to view 1.4.6 as a return to 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2, where, recall, Hum… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …t, thanks to transcendental machinery, admits of a perfect identity-which, he explains in 1.4.2, is not to be confu… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …animals; there being a great analogy betwixt it, and the identity of a self or person . ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253; emphases … |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …the perfect identity that we ascribe to objects in general (i.e. the process explained in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2… |
| 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | …hat we ascribe to objects in general (i.e. the process explained in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and 1.4.… |
| 1.4.2.27-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …n general (i.e. the process explained in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1). If Hum… |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | … e.g. tables and chairs. However, as we saw in Chaps. 5, 6, and 7 regarding respectively, 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and 1.4.2.1… |
| 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | …irs. However, as we saw in Chaps. 5, 6, and 7 regarding respectively, 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and 1.4.… |
| 1.4.2.27-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …Chaps. 5, 6, and 7 regarding respectively, 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1, Hume ne… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …; at least not one that is explicitly substantiated by the text. Rather, as we see below, 1.4.6 seems to rely heavi… |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …her, as we see below, 1.4.6 seems to rely heavily on what Hume has already established in 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and in 1.4.… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | ….4.6 seems to rely heavily on what Hume has already established in 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and in 1.4.2, both in regard to … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …perfect a notion of diversity, as if there was no manner of relation among the objects. ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253) At a cer… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …y." Immediately, Hume's account of the principle of individuation, presented in part 1 of 1.4.2's four part system,… |
| T 1.4.2.29 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.29 | …f both as "uni fi ed" as "time" changes, and as "num[erous]" as "time" remains constant ( T 1.4.2.29; SBN 201). Accordin… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …erous]" as "time" remains constant ( T 1.4.2.29; SBN 201). Accordingly, Hume concludes in 1.4.2 that: "Here then is… |
| T 1.4.2.29 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.29 | …cording to the view in which we take it: And this is the idea we call that of identity" ( T 1.4.2.29; SBN 201). Thus, g… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …201). Thus, given the conceptual similarities, I think that we must conclude that he has 1.4.2's principle of indi… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …de that he has 1.4.2's principle of individuation in mind in the passage cited above from 1.4.6. At least in part, … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …ain, that in our common way of thinking they are generally confounded with each other " ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253; emphases … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …each other. Once again, these remarks bear a striking resemblance to certain passages in 1.4.2, but now we see tha… |
| T 1.4.2.34 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.34 | …e imagination , as attends the view of the same [uninterrupted, and] invariable object" ( T 1.4.2.34; SBN 204; emphasis … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ained above, he seems to be thinking of the notion of perfect identity given in Part I of 1.4.2's system, i.e. the … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …n in Part I of 1.4.2's system, i.e. the principle of individuation. Thus, in this part of 1.4.6, Hume seems to be c… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …individuation. Why this is the case is a mystery, however, given the convoluted nature of 1.4.6, this should not co… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …rprise. On a strikingly similar note, immediately following the passage cited above from 1.4.6, Hume explains that… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …we re fl ect on the succession of related objects, are almost the same to the feeling " ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). Here, in… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … of related objects, are almost the same to the feeling " ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). Here, in 1.4.6, similar "feelings"… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | ….4.6, similar "feelings" play exactly the same role that similar "dispositions" played in 1.4.2 in regard to vulgar… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …kes us substitute the notion of [perfect] identity, instead of that of related objects" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254; emphasis … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …he two "feelings" that the imagination respectively places us in. For, as was the case in 1.4.2, the imagination is… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …s of resembling perceptions. Thus, I think that it is reasonable to conclude that here in 1.4.6, the resemblance th… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ssed at length in Chap. 8 (again, recall Fig. 8.1). Moreover, exactly as was the case in 1.4.2, Hume reminds us in… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …(again, recall Fig. 8.1). Moreover, exactly as was the case in 1.4.2, Hume reminds us in 1.4.6 that after a small … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | … yet we cannot long sustain our philosophy, or take off this bias from the imagination. ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254; emphasis … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …nd, Hume adds here, invariable and variable, a contradiction that he does not focus on in 1.4.2. In 1.4.2, we saw … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ds here, invariable and variable, a contradiction that he does not focus on in 1.4.2. In 1.4.2, we saw that while … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ing perceptions. In turn, we imagine an unperceived impression, or what Hume refers to in 1.4.2 as a "continu'd and… |
| T 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …ed impression, or what Hume refers to in 1.4.2 as a "continu'd and uninterrupted being" ( T 1.4.2.40; SBN 208), and a "c… |
| T 1.4.2.41 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (4 paragraphs) | …"continu'd and uninterrupted being" ( T 1.4.2.40; SBN 208), and a "continu'd existence" ( T 1.4.2.41; SBN 208) and, "the… |
| SBN 208 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …nd uninterrupted being" ( T 1.4.2.40; SBN 208), and a "continu'd existence" ( T 1.4.2.41; SBN 208) and, "the same con… |
| T 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …08), and a "continu'd existence" ( T 1.4.2.41; SBN 208) and, "the same continu'd being" ( T 1.4.2.40; SBN 208) and "the … |
| T 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …1.4.2.40; SBN 208) and "the supposition of the continu'd existence of sensible objects" ( T 1.4.2.40; SBN 208). Doing so… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ase of vulgar thought, or what I characterize as vulgar perspective II. In the portion of 1.4.6 that we are current… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | … the continu'd existence of the perceptions of the senses , to remove the interruption. ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254; emphases … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …urselves this absurdity," we don't make the same mistake. Rather, just as was the case in 1.4.2, we (the vulgar) "o… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | … and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254; emphases … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …self, and substance, to disguise the variation" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254; emphases added). In 1.4.6, we see that the vu… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | … " self ." Immediately following, and also entirely consistent with the account given in 1.4.2, Hume reminds us th… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ct (including an idea of a "self") as an invariable and uninterrupted object. However, in 1.4.6, Hume does not ment… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …tollens that, as was explained in Chap. 9 , is used to repudiate vulgar perspective II in 1.4.2. Rather, he seems t… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …ar, nor fi nd any thing invariable and uninterrupted to justify our notion of identity. ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254-5; emphase… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …where, given Hume's earlier remarks, all of these processes are "great[ly] analog[ous]" ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253). To make … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …5; SBN 253). To make his case, we saw that Hume revisits much of the ground he covered in 1.4.2, particularly parts… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | … of the Vulgar v. the Philosophical Perspective Immediately after revisiting the bulk of 1.4.2's four-part system,… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …mething mysterious and inexplicable , or at least with a propensity to such fi ctions . ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255; emphases … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | … explained by the principle of individuation, i.e. the account given in part 1 of Hume's 1.4.2 system, as well as … |
| T 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | ….e. the account given in part 1 of Hume's 1.4.2 system, as well as the accounts given on T 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and T 1.4… |
| T 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | … part 1 of Hume's 1.4.2 system, as well as the accounts given on T 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and T 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9. We may … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …this Chapter, he respectively characterizes vulgar perspectives I and II as a "mistake" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254) and as an… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …vulgar perspectives I and II as a "mistake" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254) and as an "absurdity" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). Meanwhil… |
| T 1.4.2.27-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | … only remaining option for a proper account would be the principle of individuation (i.e. T 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1), and si… |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …iduation (i.e. T 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1), and similarly, the accounts of identity given in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2… |
| 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | ….27-9; SBN 200-1), and similarly, the accounts of identity given in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9. This s… |
| 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …n 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9. This shouldn't be surprising, because in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2… |
| 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | …d 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9. This shouldn't be surprising, because in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and T 1.… |
| T 1.4.2.27-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …This shouldn't be surprising, because in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and T 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1 and 1.4.… |
| 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …, because in 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and T 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1 and 1.4.6.6; SBN 253, Hume does… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …we may "properly" imagine an idea of the self by way of the principle of individuation in 1.4.6? Does he also clari… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | … of individuation in regard to his discussion of objects in general and "analog[ously]" ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253), the self… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …cussion of objects in general and "analog[ously]" ( T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253), the self. But in 1.4.6, this process does … |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …ng it, we may then imagine an idea of an object. We do this by imagining a "common end" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257). And so, … |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …t of a succession of parts, connected together by resemblance, contiguity or causation. ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255) Recall t… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …ind bears to that, by which we contemplate one continu'd object, that the error arises. ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255; emphases … |
| T 1.4.2.33 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.33 | …n of what seems to be an uninterrupted perception, we " fi x our thought on any object" ( T 1.4.2.33; SBN 203), or as Hu… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …e, Hume seems to have just this kind of "mistake" in mind in the passage cited above from 1.4.6; i.e. once again, h… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …riableness and uninterrupteness are such as consist of a succession of related objects" ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255). At this … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …vulgar perspective I is a very real psychological phenomenon. But unlike what he says in 1.4.2, in this section of… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …very real psychological phenomenon. But unlike what he says in 1.4.2, in this section of 1.4.6, Hume goes on to em… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …jects are both interrupted and not interrupted. 6 Here, unlike what we saw earlier (i.e. T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253), Hume is … |
| T 1.4.2.33 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.33 | …rfect identity in mind here, i.e. a situation where, thanks to " fi x[ing] our thought" ( T 1.4.2.33; SBN 203) we imagin… |
| T 1.4.2.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.7 | …at the opinion of a continu'd and of a distinct existence never arises from the senses" ( T 1.4.2.7; SBN 192). 7 Becau… |
| T 1.4.6.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.8 | …riably the same, whatever motion or change of place we may observe in any of the parts. ( T 1.4.6.8; SBN 255) To show … |
| T 1.4.2.33 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.33 | …y conceived of perfect identity, i.e. a case where, thanks to " fi x[ing] our thought," ( T 1.4.2.33; SBN 203) we imagin… |
| T 1.4.6.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.8 | …n, and are apt to imagine, that 'tis nothing but a continu'd survey of the same object. ( T 1.4.6.8; SBN 255-6) Suppos… |
| T 1.4.6.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.9 | …ust be the uninterrupted progress of thought, which constitutes the imperfect identity" ( T 1.4.6.9; SBN 256; emphasis … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …the imperfect identity" ( T 1.4.6.9; SBN 256; emphasis added). Exactly as was the case in 1.4.2, where we conceive … |
| T 1.4.2.34 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.34 | … imagination, as it attends the view of the same [uninterrupted and] invariable object" ( T 1.4.2.34; SBN 204), we conce… |
| T 1.4.6.10 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.10 | …ich continu'd perception, it ascribes a continu'd existence and identity to the object. ( T 1.4.6.10; SBN 256) However,… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ntity to the object. ( T 1.4.6.10; SBN 256) However, exactly as we saw to be the case in 1.4.2, vulgar perspective… |
| T 1.4.6.11 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.11 | …ecome considerable, we make a scruple of ascribing identity to such difference objects" ( T 1.4.6.11; SBN 257). Hume imm… |
| T 1.4.6.11 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.11 | …me; nor does the difference of the material hinder us from ascribing an identity to it. ( T 1.4.6.11; SBN 257) This "st… |
| T 1.4.6.11 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.11 | …ffords an easy transition of the imagination from one situation of the body to another" ( T 1.4.6.11; SBN 257; emphases … |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | … some general purpose , but also a mutual dependence on, and connexion with each other. ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257) But thes… |
| T 1.3.2.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.2 | …tity. However, one might object that Hume's earlier accounts of imagined causes, given in T 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and T 1.4… |
| T 1.4.2.15-25 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (11 paragraphs) | … object that Hume's earlier accounts of imagined causes, given in T 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and T 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and T 1.… |
| T 1.4.2.27-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ccounts of imagined causes, given in T 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and T 1.4.2.15-25; SBN 194-9 and T 1.4.2.27-9; SBN 200-1 seem to … |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …comes a man, and is sometimes fact, sometimes lean, without any change in his identity. ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257) Imaginin… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …dividuation , which, recall, represents a transcendental process. Just as was the case in 1.4.2 in regard to his ex… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ge between the notion of unity and number seems to occur when imagining "common ends." In 1.4.6, he refers to this … |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ssing, and does not explicitly discuss its relationship to the idea of time, as he did in 1.4.2: We may also consi… |
| T 1.4.6.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.13 | … that we confound them, and in our thinking and reasoning employ the one for the other. ( T 1.4.6.13; SBN 257-8; emphase… |
| T 1.4.6.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.13 | … of the parish; and yet this alone is suf fi cient to make us denominate them the same. ( T 1.4.6.13; SBN 258) One migh… |
| T 1.4.6.13 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.13 | …ed by the same parish, "this alone is suf fi cient to make us denominate them the same" ( T 1.4.6.13; SBN 258). In both … |
| T 1.4.6.14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.14 | …ng less the continuity of the thought, has less in fl uence in destroying the identity. ( T 1.4.6.14; SBN 258) Although… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …Hume's earlier discussion of the "medium betwixt unity and number" discussed in part 1 of 1.4.2's system, for they … |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …principle of individuation, Hume speci fi cally introduces the term "personal identity" ( T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259). Personal… |
| 1.3.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (17 paragraphs) | …tood in relation to his general accounts of identity, particularly, the accounts given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2, and, the… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …lation to his general accounts of identity, particularly, the accounts given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2, and, the preceding… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …particularly, the accounts given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2, and, the preceding accounts given in 1.4.6, including the noti… |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …re, have a different origin, but must proceed from a like operation of the imagination. ( T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259; emphases … |
| 1.3.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (17 paragraphs) | … (i.e. organic things) and any of the inorganic objects that Hume may have had in mind in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2. Having u… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …anic things) and any of the inorganic objects that Hume may have had in mind in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2. Having underlined … |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | … them lose their characters of distinction and difference, which are essential to them. ( T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259) Although… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …ds our several perceptions together, or only associates their ideas in the imagination? ( T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259) Although… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | … effect, when strictly examin'd, resolves itself into a customary association of ideas. ( T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-260) When… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …ion with any other object, than if disjoin'd by the greatest difference and remoteness. ( T 1.4.6.16; SBN 260). Indeed,… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …There are three relations that could be responsible for such a fi ction, as noted above ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255; recall Se… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …e among its perceptions. The case is the same whether we consider ourselves our others. ( T 1.4.6.18; SBN 260-1) Assume… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …wn in Sect. 4 of this chapter, Hume is quite certain that this approach is "mistake[n]" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254). ## 6.2 … |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …t is the correct process? Hume refers to it here as the " true idea of the human mind." ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261): As to c… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …hought chaces another, and draws after it a third, by which it is expell'd in its turn. ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) Here, Hu… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ter and disposition, as well as his impressions and ideas, without losing his identity. ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261; emphasis … |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …it, we would have no "self" in the respect that the "self" is actually a "commonwealth" ( T 1.4.6.20; SBN 261-2): But h… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …o have existed. For how few of our past actions are there, of which we have any memory? ( T 1.4.6.20; SBN 262) Here, Hu… |
| T 1.4.6.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.21 | …en these causal relations gives "rise to some fi ction or imagining principle of union" ( T 1.4.6.21; SBN 262). Consist… |
| 1.3.2 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2 (17 paragraphs) | …on" ( T 1.4.6.21; SBN 262). Consistent with Hume's accounts of perfect identity given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 8 (regard… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …4.6.21; SBN 262). Consistent with Hume's accounts of perfect identity given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 8 (regardless if it… |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …causal relations, i.e. it is similar to the "common end" or "purpose" discussed earlier ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257). What is … |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ion," i.e. the "self" that seems to abide over time; this is what we believe to "unite" ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) our colle… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … ed]" self as their cause. Thus, the "true" picture of the mind given at this juncture of 1.4.6, is itself a produc… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …a result of philosophical re fl ection; recall Part II of this book). ## 7 Conclusion of 1.4.6 By the end of 1.4.… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ical re fl ection; recall Part II of this book). ## 7 Conclusion of 1.4.6 By the end of 1.4.6, Hume is certain th… |
| T 1.4.6.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.21 | …hat he has sidestepped "all the nice and subtle questions concerning personal identity" ( T 1.4.6.21; SBN 262), relegati… |
| T 1.4.6.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.21 | … 262), relegating them to "grammatical [rather] than [to] philosophical dif fi culties" ( T 1.4.6.21; SBN 262). Identity… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …itly-that the idea of a the self is imagined as a cause is reinforced with his remarks in 1.4.6 on the "simplicity"… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …e "simplicity" of the idea of personal identity, given in the second to last paragraph of 1.4.6, Here, Hume refers … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … the second to last paragraph of 1.4.6, Here, Hume refers back to the opening passages of 1.4.6, where he announced… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …different; whatever natural propensity we have to imagine that simplicity and identity" ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253). He write… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …this simplicity, and the center of all the different parts and qualities of the object. ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263; emphases … |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …y that according to Hume, when we bring to mind a member of our "bundle of perceptions" ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253) i.e. of t… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … member of our "bundle of perceptions" ( T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253) i.e. of the "commonwealth" ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261), we natur… |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …bring to mind is both invariable and uninterrupted, and is imagined to be the "purpose" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "… |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …uninterrupted, and is imagined to be the "purpose" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "end" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …rpose" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "end" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "simplicity" ( T 1.4.6.22: SBN 263), or the "… |
| SBN 263 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | ….4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "end" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "simplicity" ( T 1.4.6.22: SBN 263), or the "center" (… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …nd" ( T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), or the "simplicity" ( T 1.4.6.22: SBN 263), or the "center" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) or the "p… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | … 1.4.6.22: SBN 263), or the "center" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) or the "principle of union" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) of the bu… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …le and uninterrupted perception would literally be her "self-image." This is the "true" ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) idea of t… |
| T App. 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …s, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" ( T App. 10; SBN 633). Labyrint… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …he proper , or perfect account of identity, while the vulgar perspective is "mistaken," ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254), "absurd"… |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …f identity, while the vulgar perspective is "mistaken," ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254), "absurd" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254) and "impe… |
| T 1.4.6.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.9 | …ve is "mistaken," ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254), "absurd" ( T 1.4.6.6; SBN 254) and "imperfect" ( T 1.4.6.9; SBN 256) and the p… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …) and "imperfect" ( T 1.4.6.9; SBN 256) and the philosophical perspective is "improper" ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 255). But furt… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …given what we have learned in Chaps. 1-9 of this book, we can anticipate the problem with 1.4.6: it is a convoluted… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …nition of this rather egregious problem is, I think, the source of Hume's uneasiness with 1.4.6. To see this, fi rs… |
| T App. 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …, I think, the source of Hume's uneasiness with 1.4.6. To see this, fi rst recall that on T App. 10; SBN 633 in the App… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …t is destroyed when we die. So far, so good. This is what he claimed at the beginning of 1.4.6. But, Hume tells us… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …y the seeming evidence of the preceding reasonings cou'd have induc'd me to receive it. ( T App. 20; SBN 635; emphases … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ommon ends," or, as he characterizes it speci fi cally in terms of the mind at the end of 1.4.6, the unity that bin… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …ions in the respect that they are the respective invariable and uninterrupted "centers" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) or "purpo… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …respective invariable and uninterrupted "centers" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263) or "purposes," ( T 1.4.6.7; SBN 257), i.e. fi … |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … "no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding" ( T App. 20; SBN 635). For inst… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …are ever discoverable by human understanding" ( T App. 20; SBN 635). For instance, recall 1.4.2. where Hume argues … |
| T 1.4.2.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.4 | … where this cause " connects " all these perceptions in virtue of being their cause (e.g. T 1.4.2.4 SBN 189; recall Cha… |
| T 1.4.2.52 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (2 paragraphs) | …ses all of our perceptions (distinct existences), as the philosophers mistakenly do (e.g. T 1.4.2.52; SBN 214-15; recall… |
| SBN 214-15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ur perceptions (distinct existences), as the philosophers mistakenly do (e.g. T 1.4.2.52; SBN 214-15; recall Chap. 9 ). … |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … "No connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding" ( T App. 20; SBN 635). But, Hu… |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …om consciousness; and consciousness is nothing but a re fl ected thought or perception" ( T App. 20; SBN 635; emphasis … |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …g from principles , is surely mistaken. For try as he might, Hume just can't "discover" ( T App. 20; SBN 636) any such … |
| T App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …such "principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" ( T App. 20; SBN 636). At this… |
| T App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …ege of a skeptic, and confess, that this dif fi culty is too hard for my understanding" ( T App. 21; SBN 636). He think… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … ( T App. 21; SBN 636). He thinks himself defeated because he commits the very mistake in 1.4.6 that he just called… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …both vulgar perspective I and II; recall Chaps. 8 and 9 ). In this respect, the "true," ( T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) idea of t… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …e's account of common ends, and analogously, commonwealths and its "principle of union" ( T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263), are prod… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …er conclusion, Hume is, in fact, attacking himself. So, should Hume have rejected all of 1.4.6? Should he have aba… |
| " (p. 636) Checked by model | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …s we must abide by in Appendix : (i) "All our distinct perceptions are distinct existences" (p. 636) (ii) "the mind neve… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …e. ## 10 Summary In this chapter we saw that: 1. Although Hume discusses variations of 1.4.2's principle of indi… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … 1. Although Hume discusses variations of 1.4.2's principle of individuation, the bulk of 1.4.6 consists of giving … |
| T 1.4.6.5-6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …iduation, vulgar perspective I, vulgar perspective II and the philosophical perspective ( T 1.4.6.5-6; SBN 253-255). 3. (… |
| T 1.4.6.6-14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (9 paragraphs) | …) In the second, Hume summarizes vulgar perspective I and the philosophical perspective ( T 1.4.6.6-14; SBN 255-258). 4. (… |
| T 1.4.6.15-20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (6 paragraphs) | …ume focuses, once again, on just vulgar perspective I and the philosophical perspective ( T 1.4.6.15-20; SBN 259-262). 2. I… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …tinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding." This is Hume's problem in 1.4.6. 4. As a result, H… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …" This is Hume's problem in 1.4.6. 4. As a result, Hume should retract just about all of 1.4.6, where he argues (t… |