Waxman, Wayne · 1992
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity
Waxman, Wayne (1992). “Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity.” Hume Studies 18(2): 233–253.
42
citations of the Treatise
105
paragraphs reached
42%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.36
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, mostly through the passages everyone cites.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 36%Body and the external world 31%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
- Swain 2006 similarity 0.99
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Inukai 2007 similarity 0.98
Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.98
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Green 1999 similarity 0.97
The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.97
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (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) Why this change of… |
| (T 634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | … his view remained that, " Tis the composition of these, therefore, which forms the self" (T 634). Thus, just as in T… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … Tis the composition of these, therefore, which forms the self" (T 634). Thus, just as in Treatise 1.4.6, he saw no alternat… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …s from consciousness; and consciousness is nothing but a reflected thought or perception" (T 635). Since Hume saw no… |
| (T 635-36) Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …ature reflection, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. (T 635-36) Hume's account ofh… |
| (T 260-61) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …e question is, what? Is it something in Hume's account ofthe awareness ofthe self as such (T 260-61), as Kemp Smith seem… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …gest? Yet, Hume gives every appearance of having found no fault with the account given in Treatise 1.4.6 in his review of it… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …the awareness of personal identity actually occurs, but nowhere does his account of it in Treatise 1.4.6 presuppose that the… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … or difference existences, which are link'd together by the relations ofcause and effect" (T 261). That is, since to … |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …s "the principle of connexion, which binds them together" that defied explanation. In the Treatise 1.4.6 account, he made a … |
| (T 259-60) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …CONCERNING PERSONAL IDENTITY accordance with "the uniting principles in the ideal world" (T 259-60). In the appendix, w… |
| (T 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …t, because association presupposes retention, "the uniting principles in the ideal world" (T 260) are ofno help at al… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …is difficulty ... too hard for my understanding," and pleaded "the privilege ofa sceptic" (T 636), "to entertain a di… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | … to affirming "the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633); yet, since his own… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … which he wrote parts 1-3 would take him, and that, once having composed 238Hume Studies Treatise 1.4.6, he was too lazy or… |
| Treatise I.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | …gh much of the Treatise, even in the account ofthe relation of cause and effect itself in Treatise I.3.14 On the other hand, … |
| (T 212) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ts "immediately present to us by consciousness," and which "command our strongest assent" (T 212). Now, Passmore's co… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …s or different existences, which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 261)-in accounting for a… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …that constitute the mind itself until the very last. When the reckoning finally came, in Treatise 1.4.6, a clear choice con… |
| (T 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …sociations-unions of ideas in imagination belonging not to the real but "the ideal world" (T 260). So who-or what-obs… |
| (T 232) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | …equip us to explain this. We can, if we like, try to penetrate its "infinite obscurities" (T 232) and "run into the n… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …nfinite obscurities" (T 232) and "run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance" (T 254). But such endeavour… |
| (T 234) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …uisite to support the existence of a perception. We have, therefore, no idea of inhesion. (T 234) The import of this… |
| (T 207) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ts relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being. (T 207) The upshot of this… |
| (T 266-67) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (7 paragraphs) | …esides in the external object, we either contradict ourselves, or talk without a meaning. (T 266-67) We have no alterna… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …poses "principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T 636). Being unable to ac… |
| (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). "I pretend not, ho… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …hem consistent" (T 633). "I pretend not, however, to pronounce it absolutely insuperable" (T 636). That he still beli… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …ature reflection, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions" (T 636), raises the intrigu… |
| (T 260-61) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …o go so far as to treat the relation of idea-copies to impression-originals as fictitious (T 260-61); and his assertion … |
| (T 265) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (3 paragraphs) | …with which the memory presents us, be ever receiv'd as true pictures of past perceptions" (T 265), suggests that, for… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …amounts to a belated recognition by Hume ofthe truth ofthe commentator's own criticism of Treatise 1.4.6-a pat on the head f… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | … thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect" (T 635). If the problem lay… |
| (T 634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | …of inhesion. This proposition, therefore, can never be absurd with regard to perceptions" (T 634). Short of a wholesa… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …a of mind ever after. In the Abstract (published around the same time as Treatise 3), the Treatise 1.4.6 analysis is reaffir… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …needs remarking. - 8.I take 'mind', 'self, and 'person' to have been equivalent for Hume: Treatise 1.4.6 is entitled "Of per… |
| (T 251-52) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.4 (5 paragraphs) | …e 1.4.6 is entitled "Of personal identity"; it poses the problem in reference to the self (T 251-52), and solves it with… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …to the self (T 251-52), and solves it with an account of "the true idea ofthe human mind" (T 261). - 9.Nor is there a… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …rmer opinions" Hume confessed himself to be able neither to correct nor render consistent (T 633) must be supposed to… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ty"-leaves little doubt that, a) the "former opinions" in question are those expressed in Treatise 1.4.6 (specifically, the … |
| (T 189) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …e faculties. The difficulty, then, is how far we are ourselves the objects of our senses" (T 189). I see no reason wh… |
| (T 207) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | … be detached from "that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being" (T 207) and exist entirely … |