Strawson, Galen · 2012
All My Hopes Vanish Hume on the Mind
Strawson, Galen (2012). “All My Hopes Vanish Hume on the Mind.” In The Continuum Companion to Hume, ed. Bailey, Alan; OBrien, Dan, 181.
102
citations of the Treatise
211
paragraphs reached
39%
focus on the core paragraphs
2.99
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 6%Causation and the Appendix problem 47%Body and the external world 39%Immateriality of the soul 9%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.2.4.11 3 other papers reach it
- T 1.1.7.11 4 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.16.9 3 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Kail 2007 similarity 0.88
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Roth 2000 similarity 0.85
What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity? - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.85
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Humber 1995 similarity 0.85
Humes Invisible Self - Green 1999 similarity 0.83
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of 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 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 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
Appendix
Abstract
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …lly unknown to us with that of external bodies' (THN Intro. 8 / xvii). His aim in section 1.4.6 / 251-63 of his Tre… |
| App. 10-21 Citation pattern | Appendix (12 paragraphs) | …gle persisting mind. When Hume returns to this topic in the Appendix to the Treatise (THN App. 10-21 / 633-6), he can fi… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … He remains entirely happy with his account of (2), and reaffirms it in the Appendix (THN App. 20 / 635).2 The troubl… |
| App. 15-19 Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | … it can be wrong, on his empiricist terms, and he reaffirms it, too, in the Appendix (THN App. 15-19 / 634-5). The troub… |
| Abs. 28 Citation pattern | Abs. 28 | …as far as we can conceive it, is nothing but a system or train of different perceptions' (Abs. 28 / 657). We have no … |
| App. 18 Citation pattern | App. 18 | …e have no notion of . . . the mind . . . , distinct from the particular perceptions' (THN App. 1819 / 635).4 These a… |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ing beings, Hume says, are 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions' (THN 1.4.6.4 / 252). 'They are t… |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …THN 1.4.6.4 / 252). 'They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind' (THN 1.4.6.4 / 253). A 'successi… |
| THN 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …4 / 253). A 'succession of perceptions . . . constitutes [a] mind or thinking principle' (THN 1.4.6.18 / 260). It is a 'ch… |
| THN 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | ….6.18 / 260). It is a 'chain of causes and effects, which constitute our self or person' (THN 1.4.6.20 / 262).5 A 'composi… |
| App. 15 Citation pattern | App. 15 | …on' (THN 1.4.6.20 / 262).5 A 'composition of . . . perceptions . . . forms the self' (THN App. 15 / 634). A 'train . … |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …self' (THN App. 15 / 634). A 'train . . . of . . . perceptions . . . compose a mind' (THN App. 20 / 635). Hume could … |
| THN 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations' (THN 1.4.2.39 / 207). It is a 'co… |
| THN 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | ….2.39 / 207). It is a 'connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being' (THN 1.4.2.39 / 207), 'a connecte… |
| THN 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …ich constitute a thinking being' (THN 1.4.2.39 / 207), 'a connected heap of perceptions' (THN 1.4.2.40 / 207). It is a 'su… |
| THN 1.4.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.3 | …4.2.40 / 207). It is a 'succession of perceptions, which constitutes our self or person' (THN 1.4.7.3 / 265). 'It must be… |
| Abs. 28 Citation pattern | Abs. 28 | …articular perceptions, that compose the mind. I say, compose the mind, not belong to it' (Abs. 28 / 658).6 How shoul… |
| THN 2.2.6.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6.2 | …e these remarks? Well, Hume holds that 'the perceptions of the mind are perfectly known' (THN 2.2.6.2 / 366), and he also… |
| THN 2.2.6.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6.2 | …ather conjectures concerning them, involve ourselves in contradictions and absurdities' (THN 2.2.6.2 / 366). 3. WHY IS … |
| App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …d perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case' (THN App. 21 / 636). If we could… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …lain? He states what he needs to explain in two different ways in a single paragraph (THN App. 20 / 635-6). It is sli… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …erceptions] together, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity' (THN App. 20 / 635). He needs in… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …e principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness' (THN App. 20 / 636). One finds e… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …by which one idea naturally introduces another. This uniting principle among ideas . . . (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10-11) Why does h… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | … these principles, he says, 'the principles of union or cohesion among our simple ideas' (THN 1.1.4.6 / 12), we encounter… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …wou'd be much better employ'd in examining the effects than the causes of his principle. (THN 1.1.4.6 / 12- 13)10 Copyri… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …h binds them together, . . . I am sensible, that my account is very defective . . .' (THN App. 20 / 635). Why is this… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …on among them, some associating quality, by which one idea naturally introduces another. (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10)12 It seems, … |
| THN 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ion of cause and effect and mutually produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other' (THN 1.4.6.19 / 261). Does he not… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …, is an account of the mind in which 'all our particular perceptions' are 'loosen'd' (THN App. 20 / 635). He cannot e… |
| App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …nd individual', which is in effect just a particularly strong form of real connexion (THN App. 21 / 636). That is wha… |
| THN 1.1.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4 (7 paragraphs) | …es a certain theoretical conception of the mind - the PrincipleGoverned Mind described in THN 1.1.4 / 10-13 - with trem… |
| THN 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | … - the PrincipleGoverned Mind described in THN 1.1.4 / 10-13 - with tremendous success in THN 1.3.14 / 155-72 ('Of the i… |
| THN 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …ty or power in the world. He uses this conception of the Principle-Governed Mind again in THN 1.4.2 / 187-218 ('Of scep… |
| THN 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ur belief in external objects. And so far all is well and good.14 But when he comes (in THN 1.4.6 / 251-63) to give h… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … connexion that, he says, makes 'my hopes vanish . . . when I proceed to explain' it (THN App. 20 / 635). He cannot e… |
| THN 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ms of his empiricist theory of ideas. In turning his attention to our idea of the mind in THN 1.4.6 / 251-63 - after ha… |
| 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | … THN 1.4.6 / 251-63 - after having devoted detailed attention to our idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72, and our i… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …attention to our idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72, and our idea of external bodies in 1.4.2 / 187-218 - Hume fi… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …4.2 / 187-218 - Hume finds himself obliged to deprive himself of 'the uniting principle' (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10) that he had r… |
| 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | …to deprive himself of 'the uniting principle' (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10) that he had relied on in 1.3.14 and 1.4.2: 'the pri… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …himself of 'the uniting principle' (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10) that he had relied on in 1.3.14 and 1.4.2: 'the principle of … |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …e principle of connexion, which binds . . . all our particular perceptions together' (THN App. 20 / 636). It cannot b… |
| App. 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …rt with the two fundamental theoretical principles that Hume says he cannot renounce (THN App. 21 / 636). I will numb… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | … principle of connexion, which binds . . . our particular perceptions . . . together (THN App. 20 / 635), or (in its … |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …he principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness (THN App. 20 / 636), most centra… |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …court. But he is saying this. Even those who want to reject the quotation in note 18 from THN 1.4.6.6 / 253, in support o… |
| THN 1.1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.2 | …as [do] fall regularly into complex ones', and one idea 'naturally introduce[s]' another (THN 1.1.4.2 / 11). This is what… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …d of union' - a 'uniting principle', 'principles of union or cohesion' - among our ideas (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10, 1.1.4.6 / 13)… |
| 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …niting principle', 'principles of union or cohesion' - among our ideas (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10, 1.1.4.6 / 13). The 'causes'… |
| THN 1.3.14.27 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.27 | …scurity and error begin then to take place, and we are led astray by a false philosophy. (THN 1.3.14.27 / 168)24 8. GARRET… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …ust be resolv'd into original qualities of human nature, which I pretend not to explain' (THN 1.1.4.6 / 13), something th… |
| THN 1.3.16.9 Citation pattern | T 1.3.16.9 | …ing 'wonderful and unintelligible' (i.e. not understandable) by us, as he says of reason (THN 1.3.16.9 / 179), something '… |
| THN 1.1.7.15 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.15 | … says of reason (THN 1.3.16.9 / 179), something 'magical', as he says of the Imagination (THN 1.1.7.15 / 24). This is a go… |
| App. 20-1 Citation pattern | Appendix (2 paragraphs) | …e principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness' (THN App. 20-1 / 635-6). What does… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …ust be resolv'd into original qualities of human nature, which I pretend not to explain' (THN 1.1.4.6 / 13). The very fac… |
| THN 1.1.7.11 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.11 | …rdly be more clear: 'to explain the ultimate causes of our mental actions is impossible' (THN 1.1.7.11 / 22). Much is unkn… |
| THN 1.3.16.9 Citation pattern | T 1.3.16.9 | …tressed the unintelligibility and inexplicability (and 'wonderfulness' and 'magicality') (THN 1.3.16.9 / 179, 1.1.7.15 / 2… |
| 1.1.7.15 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.15 | …igibility and inexplicability (and 'wonderfulness' and 'magicality') (THN 1.3.16.9 / 179, 1.1.7.15 / 24) of the workin… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …is problem stems from the fact that he has 'loosen'd all our particular perceptions' (THN App. 20 / 635); but this lo… |
| 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | …en he moved on from (3) his empiricist account of the content of the idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72 of the Tre… |
| 1.4.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …reatise, and (5) his empiricist account of the content of the idea of physical objects in 1.4.2 / 187218, and took … |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … 187218, and took (1) the empirically warranted idea of the mind itself as his subject in 1.4.6 / 251-63, his gener… |
| THN 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | … to be referring only to the mind' (p. 161), at least in Book I of the Treatise. See also THN 1.4.6.2 / 251, 1.4.6.5 / 25… |
| 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ly to the mind' (p. 161), at least in Book I of the Treatise. See also THN 1.4.6.2 / 251, 1.4.6.5 / 253, 1.4.6.20 / 2… |
| 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | … (p. 161), at least in Book I of the Treatise. See also THN 1.4.6.2 / 251, 1.4.6.5 / 253, 1.4.6.20 / 262, 'self or per… |
| 1.4.6.17 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.17 | …he Treatise. See also THN 1.4.6.2 / 251, 1.4.6.5 / 253, 1.4.6.20 / 262, 'self or person'; 1.4.6.17 / 260, 'mind or thi… |
| THN 2.1.11.4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.4 | …y close to Hume's own published views in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise (see, for example, THN 2.1.11.4 / 317; 2.1.11.8 / 3… |
| 2.1.11.8 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.8 | …n published views in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise (see, for example, THN 2.1.11.4 / 317; 2.1.11.8 / 320; 2.2.2.15-16 … |
| 2.2.2.15-16 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …s in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise (see, for example, THN 2.1.11.4 / 317; 2.1.11.8 / 320; 2.2.2.15-16 / 339-40; 2.2.4.7 /… |
| 2.2.4.7 Citation pattern | T 2.2.4.7 | …the Treatise (see, for example, THN 2.1.11.4 / 317; 2.1.11.8 / 320; 2.2.2.15-16 / 339-40; 2.2.4.7 / 354; 2.3.7.1 / 42… |
| 2.3.7.1 Citation pattern | T 2.3.7.1 | …ee, for example, THN 2.1.11.4 / 317; 2.1.11.8 / 320; 2.2.2.15-16 / 339-40; 2.2.4.7 / 354; 2.3.7.1 / 427). 3 Hume hold… |
| THN 1.1.7.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.6 | …ear and distinct' a couple of times in the Treatise when discussing geometrical concepts (THN 1.1.7.6 / 19, 1.2.4.11 / 43… |
| 1.2.4.11 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4.11 | …a couple of times in the Treatise when discussing geometrical concepts (THN 1.1.7.6 / 19, 1.2.4.11 / 43). He uses 'cle… |
| Abs. 7 Citation pattern | Abs. 7 | …); otherwise he uses 'clear' and 'distinct' separately. He also uses 'clear and precise' (Abs. 7 / 648, THN 1.3.1.7 … |
| THN 1.3.1.7 Citation pattern | T 1.3.1.7 | …e uses 'clear' and 'distinct' separately. He also uses 'clear and precise' (Abs. 7 / 648, THN 1.3.1.7 / 52). 4 All mental… |
| THN 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …this use, is 'experiences'. 5 Here the 'causes and effects' are particular perceptions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 25… |
| 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …iences'. 5 Here the 'causes and effects' are particular perceptions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 2… |
| 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | … the 'causes and effects' are particular perceptions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 2… |
| 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | … effects' are particular perceptions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 63… |
| App. 15 Citation pattern | App. 15 | …rticular perceptions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 63… |
| App. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …tions. 6 THN 1.4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 635, 1.4.2.39 / 2… |
| 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …4.6.4 / 252, 1.4.6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 635, 1.4.2.39 / 207, 1.4.2.40 / 2… |
| 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | ….6.4 / 253, 1.4.6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 635, 1.4.2.39 / 207, 1.4.2.40 / 207, 1.4.7.3 / 26… |
| 1.4.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.3 | …6.18 / 260, 1.4.6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 635, 1.4.2.39 / 207, 1.4.2.40 / 207, 1.4.7.3 / 265, Abs. 28 / 65… |
| Abs. 28 Citation pattern | Abs. 28 | ….6.20 / 262, App. 15 / 634, App. 20 / 635, 1.4.2.39 / 207, 1.4.2.40 / 207, 1.4.7.3 / 265, Abs. 28 / 658. Six of these… |
| THN 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | … else, or summarizing the view and stating it in a particularly compressed form. See also THN 2.1.2.2 / 277. 7 On this se… |
| THN 1.1.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4 (7 paragraphs) | …', p. 16). I do not think this would have happened if the discussion had started out from THN 1.1.4 / 10. 9 In speaking… |
| THN 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …the Selby-Bigge edition, beginning with ' . . . if disjoin'd by the greatest difference' (THN 1.4.6.16) and ending with ' … |
| THN 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …e greatest difference' (THN 1.4.6.16) and ending with ' . . . amidst all its variations' (THN 1.4.6.18). 2 End\_Notes that… |
| THN 1.1.4 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4 (7 paragraphs) | … should fall regularly into complex ones'. That is simply the first point he considers in THN 1.1.4 / 10-13, 'Of the co… |
| THN 1.1.2.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.2.1 | … taken by the mind, which remains after the impression ceases; and this we call an idea' (THN 1.1.2.1 / 8). But if the mi… |
| THN 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …of identity, and a succession of related objects [are] in themselves perfectly distinct' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 253). 9 Compare t… |
| THN 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …re] in themselves perfectly distinct' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 253). 9 Compare the move he makes in THN 1.4.5 / 232-51, discussed… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | …rawson, The Secret Connexion, pp. 49-58 and Strawson, The Evident Connexion, sect. 2.4. 1 THN 1.1.4.1 / 10; emphasis adde… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …that these mental connections involve only a 'gentle force', and are not exceptionless. 2 THN 1.1.4.6 / 13. He follows Ne… |
| THN 2.3.2.4 Citation pattern | T 2.3.2.4 | …phasis added. 4 Notice the relative mildness of 'obscurity and error then begin'. Compare THN 2.3.2.4 / 409-10. 5 See Gar… |
| THN 1.1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.6 | …explain is the existence of 'the principle of connexion', not how it does what it does. 9 THN 1.1.4.6 / 13. Hume would ha… |
| THN 1.1.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.1.4.1 | ….6 / 13. Hume would have loved modern neuroscience - although not as much as Descartes. 0 THN 1.1.4.1 / 11, 1.4.6.16 / 26… |
| 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …d have loved modern neuroscience - although not as much as Descartes. 0 THN 1.1.4.1 / 11, 1.4.6.16 / 260. Hume also me… |
| THN 1.3.14.29 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.29 | …le among our internal perceptions' at the heart of his principal discussion of causation (THN 1.3.14.29 / 169). It is a mat… |
| App. 20-1 Citation pattern | Appendix (2 paragraphs) | … perceive some real connexion among them, there wou'd be no difficulty in the case'. (THN App. 20-1 / 635-6; emphasis a… |