Schwerin, Alan Kenneth · 2016
Is Hume Attempting to Introduce a New, Pragmatic Conception of a Contradiction in His Treatise?
Schwerin, Alan Kenneth (2016). “Is Hume Attempting to Introduce a New, Pragmatic Conception of a Contradiction in His Treatise?.” Principia An International Journal of Epistemology 20(3): 315–323.
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citations of the Treatise
12
paragraphs reached
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focus on the core paragraphs
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surprise of rarest citation
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.
Nearest papers
Needs at least 10 citations.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (Hume 1978, p.252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …tion that an individual is, "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions" (Hume 1978, p.252) has elicited a wide… |
| (Hume 1978, p.636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …e mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case. (Hume 1978, p.636) If only humans wer… |
| (Hume 1978, p.634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …ligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions. (Hume 1978, p.634) ``` Each of these … |
| (Hume 1978, p.634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …as separately existent, and may exist separately, without any contradiction or absurdity. (Hume 1978, p.634) But the world of t… |
| (Hume 1978, p.634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …nd do exist separately. This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. (Hume 1978, p.634) However, the disco… |
| (Hume 1978, p.636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ature reflection, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. (Hume 1978, p.636) In his eyes, the s… |