Schwerin, Alan · 2012
Hume on the Self
Schwerin, Alan (2012). “Hume on the Self.” Metaphysica 13(1): 65-85.
18
citations of the Treatise
7
paragraphs reached
93%
focus on the core paragraphs
2.63
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
- T 1.4.5.35 28 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.1 41 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.6.2 50 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Mendus 1980 similarity 1.00
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume - Giles 1993 similarity 1.00
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Roth 1990 similarity 0.99
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.98
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.93
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …he bluntly puts it, we are "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions." (Treatise 252). On the surface, th… |
| (Treatise 252-3) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. (Treatise 252-3) This is an importa… |
| (Treatise 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. (Treatise 253) But appeals to evi… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ese perceptions: "Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions." (Treatise 252). Thanks to (physica… |
| (Treatise 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. (Treatise 253) The evocative pers… |
| (Treatise 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (Treatise 253) Unlike other entit… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …eed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." (Treatise 252) 5 From this, it fo… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …nd separable from each other, and may be separately consider'd, and may exist separately" (Treatise 252) it seems reasonable… |
| (Treatise 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd. (Treatise 253) This unqualified i… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …elf at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. (Treatise 252) From Hume's point … |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …annihilated, nor do I conceive what is farther requisite to make me a perfect non-entity. (Treatise 252) So perceptions are… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … concerned: "nor do I conceive what is farther requisite to make me a perfect nonentity." (Treatise 252). Without his percep… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …re, be from any of these impressions, or from any other, that the idea of self is deriv'd…(Treatise 252) But does this nega… |
| (Treatise 251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …se of our lives" is not borne out by the perceptual evidence available to each one of us. (Treatise 251). In the light of th… |
| (Treatise 251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ails that the proposal from his rivals involves a "manifest contradiction and absurdity". (Treatise 251). The cluster of dif… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …and continu'd, which he call himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me. (Treatise 252) Hume clearly has l… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …fic thinkers: individuals he disparaging refers to as "some metaphysicians of this kind." (Treatise 252). These obstinate th… |
| (Treatise 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …r reasonable approaches. As he laments, "I must confess I can reason no longer with him." (Treatise 252). But is the adoptio… |