Roth, Robert J. · 1990
Hume and James on Personal Identity
Roth, Robert J. (1990). “Hume and James on Personal Identity.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64(2): 233–247.
15
citations of the Treatise
21
paragraphs reached
79%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.36
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
Nearest papers
- Giles 1993 similarity 0.99
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Mendus 1980 similarity 0.99
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume - Schwerin 2012 similarity 0.99
Hume on the Self - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.97
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Yang 1998 similarity 0.93
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism?
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
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 |
|---|---|---|
| " (p. 252) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement" (p. 252). This, Hume maintai… |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …s no "single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment" (p. 253). And yet, just as … |
| " (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …s "pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (p. 253). In #3 and 4, perce… |
| (p. 253) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …certain, that in our common way of thinking they are generally confounded with each other (p. 253). This confusion is… |
| (p. 254) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …east we imagine something unknown and mysterious that connects the various parts together (p. 254). Further on, Hume … |
| (pp. 259-62) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (7 paragraphs) | …Hume considers in a more formal way the basic reason why we identify distinct perceptions (pp. 259-62). He recalls a posit… |
| (pp. 260-61) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ributes to its production, by producing the relation of resemblance among the perceptions (pp. 260-61). From resemblance,… |
| (p. 261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e thought chaces another, and draws after it a third, by which it is expell'd in its turn (p. 261). Hume concludes by… |
| (pp. 261-62) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …otion of causation or of the sequence of causes and effects which comprise self or person (pp. 261-62). We can then extend… |
| " (p. 262) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …existed. Memory shows us "the relation of cause and effect among our different perceptions" (p. 262). There are three p… |
| " (p. 11) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.1.4 (3 paragraphs) | …s the reason why "our imagination runs easily from one idea to any other that resembles it" (p. 11). Resemblance as a p… |
| " (p. 261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …One thought chaces another, and draws after it a third, by which it is expell'din its turn" (p. 261). I can find no more… |
| " (p. 261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …emory alone acquaints us with the continuance and extent of this succession of perceptions" (p. 261). Whether he means t… |
| (Treatise, pp. 251-53) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.6 (7 paragraphs) | …f. He quotes at length the passage in which Hume proposes his theory of personal identity (Treatise, pp. 251-53). He acknowledges Hu… |
| (p. 636) Checked by model | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ness affects Hume's theory of personal identity. James cites the Appendix of the Treatise (p. 636) which states "that … |