Winkler, Kenneth P. · 2010
P.J.E. Kails Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy
Winkler, Kenneth P. (2010). “P.J.E. Kails Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy.” Philosophical Books 51(3): 144–159.
26
citations of the Treatise
93
paragraphs reached
15%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.48
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 100%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 0%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.3.12.6 2 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.10.7 2 other papers reach it
- T 1.3.12.5 2 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Loeb 1992 similarity 0.89
Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity - Garrett 2010 similarity 0.76
Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity - Ainslie 2009 similarity 0.64
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail - Strawson 2011 similarity 0.59
The Evident Connexion - Swain 2006 similarity 0.58
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy
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
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 1.3.14.15 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.15 | …xternal objects, and to conjoin with them any internal impressions, which they occasion" (Treatise 1.3.14.15). 2 This outstandin… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | … us into Hume's theater of the mind, where perceptions "pass, re-pass, [and] glide away" (T 1.4.6.4). He briskly conduc… |
| 1.4.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.4.1 | …ither unavoidable to mankind, or necessary, or so much as useful in the conduct of life. (1.4.4.1) Kail observes tha… |
| " (p. 71) Checked by model | T 1.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | … in Hume's view, neither "inseparable from our species" nor "useful in the conduct of life" (p. 71). He thereby imputes… |
| (p. 60) Checked by model | T 1.2.5 (2 paragraphs) | …bjects and perceptions, and the difference in their relations, connections, and durations (p. 60), there is, nonethel… |
| T 1.4.4.56 Citation pattern | T 1.2.5 (5 paragraphs) | …o conceive, objects to be in their nature any thing but exactly the same as perceptions' (T 1.4.4.56). Can a philosopher… |
| " (p. 84) Checked by model | T 1.3.4.3 to T 1.3.5.2 (3 paragraphs) | … priori inference and render it inconceivable that the cause not be followed by its effect" (p. 84). Platonic recollect… |
| " (p. 87) Checked by model | T 1.3.6 (3 paragraphs) | …is, as Hume says, 'the true manner of conceiving a particular power in a particular body' " (p. 87). Here is a selectio… |
| T 1.3.14.13 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.13 | …other. This is the true manner of conceiving of a particular power in a particular body. (T 1.3.14.13) As I read these l… |
| Treatise 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | …at a short passage has "default referential force" is a bit like saying that the whole of Treatise 1.3.14, "Of the idea of ne… |
| Treatise 1.3.14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) | …nner of conceiving of a particular power in a particular body" comes, as it happens, from Treatise 1.3.14, which contains ano… |
| 1.3.14.29 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.29 | …s that among external objects, and is not known to us any other way than by experience" (1.3.14.29, quoted on p. 138).… |
| 1.3.14.13 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.13 | …I also think that work remains. I had an ulterior motive in quoting the long passage from 1.3.14.13. It contains Hume's… |
| Treatise 1.3.14.4 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.4 | …t in that form, he might just as well stick with the circular definitions he dismisses at Treatise 1.3.14.4 and Enquiry 8.25. … |
| Treatise 1.3.14.25 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.25 | …ht" (p. 105). I ask about Kail's intentions because Hume's actual account, for example at Treatise 1.3.14.25, seems much cruder … |
| T 1.3.14.8 Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.8 | …ersuade the philosophically inclined among them that this force or energy is unperceived (T 1.3.14.8). The budding philo… |
| " (p. 122) Checked by model | T 1.3.10 (3 paragraphs) | …d those we can't, the customary transition from causes to effects is given "pride of place" (p. 122). Here I quote the r… |
| Treatise 1.4.4.1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.4.1 | …sal; such a the customary transition from causes to effects, and from effects to causes. (Treatise 1.4.4.1) I agree that the … |
| (p. 123) Checked by model | T 1.3.10 (3 paragraphs) | …has some authority, so the supposition of power in general presumably has some authority. (p. 123) I see several diff… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …entity Kail's account of Hume's troubles in the Appendix is subtle but easily stated. In Treatise 1.4.6, "Of personal ident… |
| (p. 132) Checked by model | T 1.3.12 (2 paragraphs) | …personal identity", Hume concludes that perceptions are independent, unconnected entities (p. 132). He's led to this c… |
| Appendix 12 Citation pattern | App. 12 | …s separately existent, and may exist separately, without any contradiction or absurdity. (Appendix 12) It follows that p… |
| Treatise 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … or different existences, which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (Treatise 1.4.6.19). If we assume that… |
| Appendix 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …f perceptions inhered in substance or were united, one to another, by a "real connexion" (Appendix 21). But I don't think… |
| 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …Kail seems to acknowledge, it leaves us with a contradiction that involves much more than 1.4.6, that is a large ma… |
| Appendix 1 Citation pattern | App. 1 | …ality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation; and vice the contrary" (Appendix 1, para. 10, quoted o… |