Swain, Corliss Gayda · 2006
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy
Swain, Corliss Gayda (2006). “Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy.” In The Blackwell Guide to Humes Treatise, ed. Traiger, Saul.
64
citations of the Treatise
53
paragraphs reached
59%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.57
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 4%Causation and the Appendix problem 52%Body and the external world 11%Immateriality of the soul 33%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Waxman 1992 similarity 0.99
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.98
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.97
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.96
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume - Robison 1974 similarity 0.96
Hume on Personal Identity
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
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
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 2: Of justice and injustice
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 |
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| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ume's account of personal identity one must, as Hume says, "take the matter pretty deep" (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253). Because … |
| T 1.4.6.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.8 | …whose composition remains unchanged through time have what Hume calls "perfect identity" (T 1.4.6.8; SBN 255-6). Hume d… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …at we attribute to other objects whose parts change over time, including plants, animals (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253 and T 1.4.… |
| T 1.4.6.12 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.12 | …r objects whose parts change over time, including plants, animals (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253 and T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), ships (T… |
| T 1.4.6.11 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.11 | …over time, including plants, animals (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253 and T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), ships (T 1.4.6.11; SBN 257), and repu… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …(T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253 and T 1.4.6.12; SBN 257), ships (T 1.4.6.11; SBN 257), and republics (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). Even tho… |
| T 1.4.6.22 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 | …city" or "perfect identity." Hume's positive view, then, is that the self is a composite (T 1.4.6.22; SBN 263), and, reg… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …ucceed each other with an inconceivable rapidity . . . in a perpetual flux and movement" (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 252). On Hume… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …ess we granted that these distinct perceptions constitute the self as parts of the whole (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252). A second… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …eptions are remov'd for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself " (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252). Finally,… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …, nor love, nor hate after the dissolution of my body, I shou'd be entirely annihilated" (T 1.4.6.3; SBN 252). These ar… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …Hume sometimes describes the self as a "bundle or collection of different per ceptions" (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 252), and even… |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …dle or collection of different per ceptions" (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 252), and even as a "heap" (T 1.4.2.39; SBN 207). For this… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … of cause and effect, and mutu ally produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). Instead … |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …m at any moment. While Hume calls the identity of all such changing objects "fictitious" (T 1.4.6.15; SBN 259), he oppos… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | … there is "a great analogy betwixt [that identity] and the identity of a self or person" (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253). Hume doe… |
| T 1.4.6.18 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.18 | …ecting principle, insofar as it causes new perceptions that resemble earlier perceptions (T 1.4.6.18; SBN 260-1), and re… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …ces, and actions, which we have entirely forgot, but suppose in general to have existed" (T 1.4.6.20; SBN 262). By takin… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …restricts his attention to "personal identity, as it regards our thought or imagination" (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253) when look… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …thought chaces another, and draws after it a third, by which it is expell'd in its turn" (T 1.4.6.19, SBN 261). When Hum… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …gination, considering, in addition, "our passions and the concern we take for ourselves" (T 1.4.6.5; SBN 253), he finds… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ach other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). These ne… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …ast actions and present misery, in the case of regrets, are not produced by memory alone (T 1.4.6.20; SBN 261-2). (For o… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …fferent perceptions . . . which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). He thus … |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …e union of cause and effect . . . resolves itself into a customary association of ideas" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 260). This has… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …inds our several perceptions together or only associates their ideas in the imagination" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259) and "whet… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | … some real bond among his perceptions, or only feel one among the ideas we form of them" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259). His answ… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …s the principle that "the understanding never observes any real connexion among objects" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60; and T … |
| T Appendix. 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …derstanding never observes any real connexion among objects" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60; and T Appendix. 20; SBN 635), includin… |
| T 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …o them, because of the union of their ideas in the imagination, when we reflect on them" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 260; and T App… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …ion of their ideas in the imagination, when we reflect on them" (T 1.4.6.16; SBN 260; and T Appendix 20; SBN 635). For Hume… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …f the self is a composite, and its parts "form a whole only by being connected together" (T Appendix 20; SBN 635), then it … |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … existences and that the mind never perceives any connections among distinct existences" (T Appendix 21; SBN 636). However,… |
| T 1.3.14.24 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.24 | …izes his views concerning a necessary connection between cause and effect as paradoxical (T 1.3.14.24; SBN 166), because … |
| T 1.3.14.23 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.23 | …ely to the soul, which considers the union of two or more objects in all past instances" (T 1.3.14.23; SBN 166). This "pa… |
| T 1.3.14.26 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.26 | …ow it on a being that is no ways related to the cause or effect, but by perceiving them" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 168), and sees… |
| T 1.3.14.26 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.26 | …tion as "a gross absurdity, and contrary to the most certain principles of human reason" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 168). Hume als… |
| T 1.3.14.26 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.26 | … that "[t]hought may well depend on causes for its operation, but not causes on thought" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 167). Although… |
| T 1.3.14.24 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.24 | …e only hope Hume says he has of its acceptance is "by dint of solid proof and reasoning" (T 1.3.14.24; SBN 166). When as… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …ynthesizing activity of the mind. These thoughts chase, draw after, and expel each other (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) with the … |
| T Appendix 1 Citation pattern | App. 1 | …dentifies only three mistakes, one of which he characterizes as a "considerable mistake" (T Appendix 1; SBN 623), while th… |
| T Appendix 22 Citation pattern | App. 22 | …ake" (T Appendix 1; SBN 623), while the other two are called "errors of less importance" (T Appendix 22; SBN 636). The cons… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ss, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent. (T Appendix 10; SBN 631) This pas… |
| T 1.4.5.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.1 | …t that the passage in the Appendix refers to Hume's claim about the intellectual world in T 1.4.5.1.) In the Appendix … |
| T 1.4.5.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.1 | …dea of the self. Hume says the former contain "contradictions" as well as "difficulties" (T 1.4.5.1; SBN 232), while th… |
| T 1.4.5.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.1 | …ncerning it, agrees with itself ; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so. (T 1.4.5.1; SBN 232; my italic… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …which seem to attend every explication that human reason can give of the material world" (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). Interpre… |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …e. We nonetheless agree that "strict review of the section concerning personal identity" (T Appendix 10; SBN 631) made Hume… |
| T Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …stences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences" (T Appendix 21; SBN 636). These pr… |
| T 1.4.3.9-10 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …peaking of some sort of meta physical bond without having any idea of the bonding agent (T 1.4.3.9-10; SBN 223-4). In Hum… |
| T 1.4.7.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.5 | …sides in the external object, we either contradict ourselves, or talk without a meaning" (T 1.4.7.5; SBN 267). Hume's … |
| T 1.4.2.43 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (6 paragraphs) | …he distinctness of the distinct objects of perception, which is the case with the vulgar (T 1.4.2.43; SBN 209), or they … |
| SBN 209 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (2 paragraphs) | …ess of the distinct objects of perception, which is the case with the vulgar (T 1.4.2.43; SBN 209), or they speak of … |
| T 1.4.3.7-8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …substance or substratum) without having any coherent idea of what they are talking about (T 1.4.3.7-8; SBN 222-3). When … |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …feel a connexion, or a determination of the thought, to pass from one object to another" (T Appendix 20; SBN 635). And this… |
| T Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …hen it comes to that explanation, Hume acknowledges that his account is "very defective" (T Appendix 20; SBN 635). That sho… |
| T Appendix.21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | … in something . . . individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them" (T Appendix.21; SBN 636) makes it … |
| T Appendix 10 Citation pattern | App. 10 | …ew of the section on personal identity as providing a good general reason for skepticism (T Appendix 10; SBN 633). He alrea… |
| T 3.2.1.2 Citation pattern | T 3.2.1.2 | …fest in many ways. Hume notes that they are made manifest in speech, gesture, and action (T 3.2.1.2; SBN 477). If we ca… |
| T 1.3.15, 6 Citation pattern | T 1.3.15 (13 paragraphs) | …g as we accept the principle that "the same effect never arises but from the same cause" (T 1.3.15, 6; SBN 173), which is… |
| T 1.4.7.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.7 | …, generally, and happily for us, very refined reflections have little effect on practice (T 1.4.7.7 and 1.4.7.8; SBN 26… |
| 1.4.7.8 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.8 | …nd happily for us, very refined reflections have little effect on practice (T 1.4.7.7 and 1.4.7.8; SBN 268). He would… |
| T 2.1.11.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.2 | …pens us to the sufferings and happiness of others and gives us a lively concern for them (T 2.1.11.2; SBN 316). But symp… |
| T 2.1.11.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.5 | …. We often do this by imagining what we would think and feel under similar circumstances (T 2.1.11.5; SBN 317). Sympathy… |