Swain, Corliss Gayda · 1991
Being Sure of Ones Self Hume on Personal Identity
Swain, Corliss Gayda (1991). “Being Sure of Ones Self Hume on Personal Identity.” Hume Studies 17(2): 107–124.
42
citations of the Treatise
86
paragraphs reached
27%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.89
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 21%Body and the external world 16%Immateriality of the soul 63%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.3.11 11 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.3.4 10 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.3.3 10 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Roth 2000 similarity 0.80
What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity? - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.70
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Ainslie 2008 similarity 0.70
Hume on Personal Identity - Swain 2006 similarity 0.70
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Humber 1995 similarity 0.69
Humes Invisible Self
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treatise 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | … together by the relation of cause and effect."4 Drawing on arguments he had developed in Treatise 1.4.5 and 6, Hume shows i… |
| (T 633) 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" (T 633).7 He confesses that… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …sistent" (T 633).7 He confesses that his account of personal identity is "very defective" (T 635) and claims that all… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …personal identity is "very defective" (T 635) and claims that all his hopes for it vanish (T 635). Hume finally plead… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …e privilege of a sceptic, claiming that the problem is "too hard for [his] understanding" (T 636). These passages tak… |
| (T 259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ve some real bond among his perceptions, or only feel one among the ideas we form ofthem" (T 259). He concluded that,… |
| (T 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … them, because of the union of their ideas in the imagination, when we reflect upon them" (T 260). In other words, th… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …in the principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T 636). Here he adds that … |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ciple is that he holds two other principles which he claims he "cannot render consistent" (T 636)-namely, "that all o… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …xistences, and that the mind neverperceives any real connexion among distinct existences" (T 636).8 Hume does say in … |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …fthe notion ofthe "strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). In book 1 Hume cla… |
| Treatise 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …,13 but rather to correct the mistaken impression Hume may have given at the beginning of Treatise 1.4.5 ("Of the immaterial… |
| (T 232) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | …concerning it, agrees with itself; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so" (T 232). Hume then noted th… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …gard to the mind, that we have no notion of it, distinct from the particular perceptions" (T 635). To be reconciled t… |
| (T 219) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …sophy, concerning substances, and substantial forms, and accidents, and occult qualities" (T 219). It would be a mist… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …when examining what he says about the modern fictions "ofa soul, and self, and substance" (T 254). Hume's examinatio… |
| (T 219) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …is between the acknowledged variations ofan object through time and the object's identity (T 219).14 We encounter the… |
| (T 219) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …tions?"15 The second question is: By what means do we try to conceal these contradictions (T 219) or, in other words:… |
| (T 220) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | … will no more perceive the change, than if it contemplated the same unchangeable object" (T 220). We recognize the … |
| (T 253-54) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …stake, and makes us substitute the notion of identity, instead of that ofrelated objects. (T 253-54) Having explained i… |
| (T 220) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | … and this unintelligible something [is called] a substance, or original and first matter" (T 220). The modern metaph… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …r" (T 220). The modern metaphysicians also "feign some new and unintelligible principle" (T 254) which is supposed t… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …under all these variations, and their unintelligible something is also called a substance (T 254). Or they "imagine s… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …an the natural relation of causation, something which connects the perceptions themselves (T 254). Hume accounts for… |
| (T 221) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …on of these qualities affect the mind in the same way that a perfectly simple object does (T 221). But when these qua… |
| (T 221) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …are considered in a different light, each seems different, distinguishable, and separable (T 221). So we also conside… |
| (T 221) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …und object a title to be call'd one thing, notwithstanding its diversity and composition" (T 221). Hume gives the sam… |
| (T 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | …er to its conception. From this similarity of operation we attribute a simplicity to it" (T 263). The notion of sub… |
| (T 222) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (4 paragraphs) | …nhesion are unintelligible or incomprehensible and may as well be called occult qualities (T 222). He makes the same … |
| (T 223) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …hat "for ever flies from us; and ... in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist" (T 223). What they sought f… |
| (T 223) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …ities) could be connected in a simple (yet composite) and identical (yet changing) object (T 223). Where they sought … |
| (T 223) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …identical (yet changing) object (T 223). Where they sought for it was in matter or causes (T 223). In the Appendix H… |
| (T 223) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …at 'tis not from a view of the nature and qualities of objecte we infer one from another" (T 223). In other words, th… |
| (T 223) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3.9 | …ispleas'd with every system, which their reason suggests to them, in order to explain it" (T 223). Had these philoso… |
| (T 224) Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …nt of the metaphysical glue that holds the material world together is moderate scepticism (T 224). When Hume pleads … |
| (T 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …correct these opinions and render them consistent he had to "take the matter pretty deep" (T 253), examining why he s… |
| (T 203) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …that there are two kinds of objects "capable of placing the mind in the same disposition" (T 203): strictly identical… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ifferent perceptions . . . , whichare link'd together by the relation ofcause and effect" (T 261), that there is a se… |
| (T 217) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ust be content to rely on our senses, memory, and on the "trivial qualities of the fancy" (T 217) or principles of th… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …c'd me to deny the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). - 8.Since these tw… |
| (T 232) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | … those we have discover'd in the natural. What is known concerning it, agrees with itself (T 232). - 24.It should be … |
| (T 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …he rest of mankind "they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions" (T 252). In the Appendix Hu… |