Roth, Abraham Sesshu · 2000
What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity?
Roth, Abraham Sesshu (2000). “What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity?.” Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 61(1): 91–114.
33
citations of the Treatise
127
paragraphs reached
36%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.60
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 5%Causation and the Appendix problem 13%Body and the external world 73%Immateriality of the soul 8%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.3.2 11 other papers reach it
- App. 2 3 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.2.32 n38 20 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Ainslie 2008 similarity 0.94
Hume on Personal Identity - Green 1999 similarity 0.94
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.93
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Kail 2007 similarity 0.91
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Waxman 1992 similarity 0.91
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity
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 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (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).2 As we shall exami… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …. But Hurne quite explicitly sees the problem as involving uniting successive perceptions (T636). Moreover, as in th… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …rtaining to the hope that he or others may in the future "reconcile those contradictions" (T636). The second and mo… |
| (T201) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | … break of the view, and without being obliged to form the idea of multiplicity or number. (T201) However, we often … |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …rson or mind, identical' through time. 12 See 'Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses' (I.iv.2) and 'Of the Ancien… |
| I.iv.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …2 See 'Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses' (I.iv.2) and 'Of the Ancient Philosophy' (I.iv.3). 13 Even if you h… |
| (T219) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …ion is evidently contrary to this supposed simplicity, and the variation to the identity. (T219) Notice the contras… |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …s.. .(T217-18, my emphasis) In sum, Hume's discussion of object identity in the sections I.iv.2 and I.iv.3 of the T… |
| I.iv.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …18, my emphasis) In sum, Hume's discussion of object identity in the sections I.iv.2 and I.iv.3 of the Treatise is … |
| Appendix.
16 Citation pattern | App. 16 | …. Moreover, one would not be able to understand the misgivings Hume was expressing in the Appendix. 16 Though Hume says 'p… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …personal identity. As with the case of objects, Hume's discussion of personal identity in I.iv.6 begins by indicatin… |
| (T252-53) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …fferent; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. (T252-53) Recall that for so… |
| (T635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …rceptions are all distinct. He speaks of having "loosen'd all our particular perceptions" (T635), and says he cannot… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …, and says he cannot renounce that "all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences" (T636). It follows, by the… |
| I.i.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4 (7 paragraphs) | …run together. First of all, he doesn't seem to rule out the association of impressions in I.i.4. More importantly, … |
| (T635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …AHAM SESSHU ROTH among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding" (T635). Having now establi… |
| (T635-36) Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head" (T635-36). I think that this … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … than those constituting objects. But if Hume was simply dissatisfied with his account in I.iv.6 in terms of resembl… |
| (T202) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …sure to give warning, when I return to a more philosophical way of speaking and thinking" (T202).1 Hume is, moreove… |
| (T215) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.52 | …e, and characterizing it as the monstrous offspring of the imagination and bad philosophy (T215).22 The second assu… |
| Appendix.2 Citation pattern | App. 2 | … would not yield results which could possibly have been the source of Hume's worry in the Appendix.2 Such a view, howev… |
| (T278) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | … that both cannot succeed in yielding their usual culminating beliefs. In Treatise II i 2 (T278), Hume points out th… |
| (T252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …holds that I must do more than remove all of my perceptions in order to render me nothing (T252), implying that it i… |
| (T253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …gar) mistake of ascribing an identity to a succession of related but distinct perceptions (T253).31 Later in the par… |
| (T254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …n; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation" (T254). It is pretty clear… |
| (T259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ke them lose their characters of distinction and difference, which are essential to them. (T259) This alters radica… |
| (T260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ssion?33 The alleged bond might turn out to be different things. Hume mentions causality (T260), though he rejects … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …o interrupted successions. 33 It is interesting that the section "Of Personal Identity" (I.iv.6) includes discussio… |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …would have supposed should have found their way into his earlier discussion of objects in I.iv.2 and I.iv.3. This ne… |
| I.iv.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) | …supposed should have found their way into his earlier discussion of objects in I.iv.2 and I.iv.3. This new discussio… |
| (T636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …e mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case. (T636) The two principles… |
| (T253,9) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 to T 1.1.3.1 n3 (7 paragraphs) | …never perceives such connections. Elsewhere he says that all our perceptions are distinct (T253,9) and that no impress… |
| (T252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e distinct (T253,9) and that no impression corresponds to the notion of self or substance (T252). Without such an im… |