T 1.2.3.10
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In order to know whitherwhether any objects, which are join'd in impression, be separable in idea, we need only consider, if they be different from each other; in which case, 'tis plain they may be conceiv'd apart. Every thing, that is different, is distinguishable; and every thing, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explain'd. If on the contrary they be not different, they are not distinguishable; and if they be not distinguishable, they cannot be separated. But this is precisely the case with respect to time, compar'd with our successive perceptions. The idea of time is not deriv'd from a particular impression mix'd up with others, and plainly distinguishable from them; but arises altogether from the manner, in which impressions appear to the mind, without making one of the number. Five notes play'd on a flute give us the impression and idea of time; tho' time be not a sixth impression, which presents itself to the hearing or any other of the senses. Nor is it a sixth impression, which the mind by reflection finds in itself. These five sounds making their appearance in this particular manner, excite no emotion in the mind, nor produce an |affection of any kind, which being observ'd by it can give rise to a new idea. For that is necessary to produce a new idea of reflection, nor can the mind, by revolving over a thousand times all its ideas of sensation, ever extract from them any new original idea, unless nature has so fram'd its faculties, that it feels some new original impression arise from such a contemplation. But here it only takes notice of the manner, in which the different sounds make their appearance; and that it may afterwards consider without considering these particular sounds, but may conjoin it with any other objects. The ideas of some objects it certainly must have, nor is it possible for it without these ideas ever to arrive at any conception of time; which since it appears not as any primary distinct impression, can plainly be nothing but different ideas, or impressions, or objects dispos'd in a certain manner, that is, succeeding each other.
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| Loeb 1992 | 1.2.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tion is a consequence of Hume's views about change and time or duration.19 Hume writes in 1.2.3: I know there are … |
| (T 37) T 1.2.3 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …exactness be applj^d to it, nor can any thing unchangeable be ever said to have duration. (T 37) He returns to the … | |
| Spector 1998 | 1.2.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …..................................................................................... 11 1.2.3 The Case for a Tigh… |
| 1.2.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …y indicates a radically revised philosophical approach to investigating human nature. ## 1.2.3 The Case for a Tigh… | |
| 1.2.3.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …e metaphysical fictions and provide a revisionary account of what in fact we know. l7THN 1.2.3.10, p. 36. Hume's trea… | |
| THN 1.2.3.8-10 T 1.2.3 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s themselves are parasitic on a temporally extended self. 90THN 1.4.7.1, pp. 263-264. 9ITHN 1.2.3.8-10, pp. 35-36 and THN … | |
| Thiel 2011 | I.ii.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …seem puzzling. Hume explains this, however, in an earlier section of the Treatise (ibid., I.ii.3). Here he argues th… |
| Pitson 2012 | T 1.2.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … elucidating the meaning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2… |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.2.3 T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … elucidating the meaning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time (T 1.2.3; SBN 33-39), causat… |
| Cottrell 2015 | SBN 37, 157 T 1.2.3.10 to T 1.3.14.5 n28 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ves from and represents another idea (T 1.1.1.11; SBN 6-7; see also T 1.2.3.11, 1.3.14.6; SBN 37, 157). He also holds tha… |