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 1.2.6.4
SBN 66-7 · cited directly by 0 papers, reached by 9 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
The idea of existence, then, is the very same with the idea of what we conceive to be existent. To reflect on any thing simply, and to reflect on it as existent, are nothing |different from each other. That idea, when conjoin'd with the idea of any object, makes no addition to it. Whatever we conceive, we conceive to be existent. Any idea we please to form is the idea of a being; and the idea of a being is any idea we please to form.
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| Paper | Cited as | Context |
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| 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… | |
| Davie 1984 | (T 67) T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …conceive or form an idea of any thing specifically different from ideas and impressions." (T 67) Again, in a slightl… |
| Flage 1984 | (T, 67-68) T 1.2.6 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s and ideas) and compare a particular perception with the object it is taken to represent (T, 67-68), one can never know… |
| 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… |
| Ainslie 2003 | T 2.3.2.67 T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …make a difference to how we understand her, for it would be wholly disconnected from her (T 2.3.2.67, SBN 411-12). (What… |
| Loeb 2009 | (T p. 67) T 1.2.6 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ns are present to the mind Mind, Vol. 118 . 469 . January 2009 ? Mind Association 2009 (T p. 67); (2) perceptions th… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| SBN 67, 241 T 1.2.6.4 to T 1.4.5.19 n45 (10 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …not conceive of anything "specifically different" from a perception (T 1.2.6.8, 1.4.5.19; SBN 67, 241); hence we can only… | |
| SBN 67-68, 202, 205, 217, 218 T 1.2.6.4 to T 1.4.2.57 (17 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …, are "specifically" like perceptions (T 1.2.6.8, 1.4.2.31, 1.4.2.36, 1.4.2.54, 1.4.2.56; SBN 67-68, 202, 205, 217, 218). Can he really thi… |