Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time · T 1.2.6 Of the idea of existence, and of external existence
T 1.2.6.1
SBN 66 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 4 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
IT may not be amiss, before we leave this subject, to explain the ideas of existence and of external existence; which have their difficulties, as well as the ideas of space and time. By this means we shall be the better prepar'd for the examination of knowledge and probability, when we understand perfectly all those particular ideas, which may enter into our reasoning.
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1 of 5 papers cite this paragraph directly; the rest reach it through a page or section range. Snippets are the words around each citation.
| Paper | Cited as | Context |
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| Cottrell 2015 | SBN 66 T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …epts a form of ideas"), and (iii) his claim that "consciousness never deceives" (E 7.13; SBN 66; see also T 1.4.2.7… |
| T 1.2.6.8, 1 T 1.2.6 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … he holds that we cannot conceive of anything "specifically different" from a perception (T 1.2.6.8, 1.4.5.19; SBN 67, 241… | |
| T 1.2.6.8, 1 T 1.2.6 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s that we can conceive are perceptions or, at least, are "specifically" like perceptions (T 1.2.6.8, 1.4.2.31, 1.4.2.36, 1… | |
| Butchvarov 1959 | " (p. 66) T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …object of our thought, or must be the very same with the idea of the perception or object " (p. 66). This statement of … |
| (p. 66) T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) Checked by model | …be questioned. In that section Hume clearly accepts the second alternative of the dilemma (p. 66), namely, that " the… | |
| Robison 1974 focused | (T66) T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e "there is no impression nor idea of any k i nd . . , that is not eonceiv'd as existent" (T66). But, "So far from … |
| (T66) T 1.2.6 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …. I do not think there are any two distinct impressions, which are inseparably conjoin'd" (T66). Our idea of existe… | |
| (T66-67) T 1.2.6 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …of any object, makes no addition to it. Whatever we conceive, we conceive to be existent" (T66-67). Butchvarov conclud… | |
| Penelhum 1992 | Treatise 1.2.6 T 1.2.6 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …lntyre, "Is Hume's Self Consistent?" in McGiIl Hume Studies (above, n. 4), 79-88. - 7.See Treatise 1.2.6. - 8.Nicholas Capal… |
| Pitson 2013 | SBN 64-67 T 1.2.5.25 to T 1.2.6.6 n13 (14 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …attraction" but also, for example, volition as a source of bodily movements (EHU 7.10-15; SBN 64-67). It is also diffic… |