Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 3: Of knowledge and probability · T 1.3.14 Of the idea of necessary connexion
T 1.3.14.12
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Some have asserted, that we feel an energy, or power, in our own mind; and that having in this manner acquir'd the idea of power, we transfer that quality to matter, where we are not able immediately to discover it. The motions of our body, and the thoughts and sentiments of our mind, (say they) obey the will; nor do we seek any farther to acquire a just notion of force or power. But to convince us how fallacious this reasoning is, we need only consider, that the will being here consider'd as a cause, has no more a discoverable connexion with its effects, than any material cause has with its proper effect. So far from perceiving the connexion betwixt an act of volition, and a motion of the body; 'tis allow'd that no effect is more inexplicable from the powers and essence of thought and matter. Nor is the empire of the will over our mind more intelligible. The effect is there distinguishable and separable from the cause, and cou'd not be foreseen without the experience of their constant conjunction. We have command over our mind to a certain degree, but beyond that lose all empire over it: And 'tis |evidently impossible to fix any precise bounds to our authority, where we consult not experience. In short, the actions of the mind are, in this respect, the same with those of matter. We perceive only their constant conjunction; nor can we ever reason beyond it. No internal impression has an apparent energy, more than external objects have. Since, therefore, matter is confess'd by philosophers to operate by an unknown force, we shou'd in vain hope to attain an idea of force by consulting our own minds[30].
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| Ainslie 2009 | T 1.3.14.12 this paragraph Citation pattern | …one causal power, namely, our will.9 Hume, however, is resolutely op Locke on this point (T 1.3.14.12, SBN 632), as well … |
| Mcintyre 2009 | T 1.3.14.12 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ppendix, of the impossibility of deriving the idea of power from the feeling of volition (T 1.3.14.12). By contrast, the … |
| T 1.3.14.12 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ven within the mind there is no stronger tie to be discovered among our perceptions. Both T 1.3.14.12 and the Enquiry agr… | |
| Robison 1974 focused | (T633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" (T633). Humo clearly think… |
| Nathanson 1976 | (633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …'d me to deny the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being. (633) Further, mentionin… |
| Garrett 1981 | (T633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the existence of an "impression of self or substance, as something simple and individual" (T633), something "simple … |
| Swain 1991 | (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" (T 633).7 He confesses that… |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …fthe notion ofthe "strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). In book 1 Hume cla… | |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …c'd me to deny the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). - 8.Since these tw… | |
| Loeb 1992 | 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ems content with the result that personal identity does not involve a real connection. At 1.3.14, "Of the idea of ne… |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ts this result with equanimity. This puzzle can be generalized somewhat. Hume observesin 1.3.14 that "the terms of … | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nnection in causation. Hume targets a number of the nearly synonymous notions not only in 1.3.14, but also at T 246-… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …in the appendix and in 1.4.6, and in the discussion of necessary connexion in 1.3.14.4 At 1.3.14, Hume argues that t… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …to a "real connexion" harken back to Hume's discussion of real connections at T 161-68 of 1.3.14, and to the objecti… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ed with reference to real connections, and real connections, as Hume conceives of them at 1.3.14, are intrinsic rela… | |
| (T 103, 161, 162, 166, 247, 248, 249, 260, 266, 632, 635) T 1.3.8.10 to App. 20n89 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …162, 266). - 5.Though Hume contends that there is no "connexion" between cause and effect (T 103, 161, 162, 166, 247, 248, 249, 260, 266, 632, 635), he often writes of… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …extrinsic relations. He was clear that causation is extrinsic (T 169-70; E 76-77); and in 1.3.14 he intends to contr… | |
| Waxman 1992 focused | (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent. (T 633) Why this change of… |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … to affirming "the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633); yet, since his own… | |
| Treatise I.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" (T 633). "I pretend not, ho… | |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rmer opinions" Hume confessed himself to be able neither to correct nor render consistent (T 633) must be supposed to… | |
| Giles 1993 focused | (pp. 633-636) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 22 (16 paragraphs) Checked by model | …70. - 14 - There are also the so-called "second thoughts" in the Appendix to the Treatise (pp. 633-636), where Hume seems t… |
| Humber 1995 focused | (Treatise, 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re really no help in solving the problem and that he is "involv'd in ... a labyrinth...." (Treatise, 633) If the above analy… |
| (Treatise, 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …he neither knows how to correct his former opinions ((nor how to render them consistent." (Treatise, 633) In the final analys… | |
| (Treatise, 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tation allows us to understandwhyHumewould say that he feels "involv'din ... a labyrinth" (Treatise, 633) whenever he reviews… | |
| (Treatise, 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …is opinions concerning personal identity he does not know "how to render them consistent" (Treatise, 633); for if our analysi… | |
| Purviance 1997 | (T 633-636) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 22 (16 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …er Hume's Book One treatment of personal identity and his further remarks in the Appendix (T 633-636), it would seem that… |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …says that the goal of a theory of personal identity is to account for "self or substance" (T 633). Then he reviews th… | |
| Spector 1998 | THN 1.3.14.4-19 T 1.3.14 (16 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …a temporally extended self. 90THN 1.4.7.1, pp. 263-264. 9ITHN 1.2.3.8-10, pp. 35-36 and THN 1.3.14.4-19, pp. 157-166, respe… |
| Ainslie 1999 | (T 633-636) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 22 (16 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …identity "as it regards our thought or the imagination" in the "Appendix" to the Treatise (T 633-636) without seeing the … |
| Green 1999 focused | ' (633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …nfess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent' (633). Hn s us os … |
| Roth 2000 | (T633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent" (T633).2 As we shall exami… |
| Winkler 2000 focused | (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d him "to deny the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). These arguments oc… |
| (T 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …which seem to attend every explication, that human reason can give of the material world" (T 633).38 But "upon a more… | |
| Ellis 2006 focused | T 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …duction Hume hoped in T 1.4.6 to do for the idea of the self what he had already done in T 1.3.14 and T 1.4.2 for the… |
| T 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …similar form in the preceding paragraphs of the Appendix.) The second is his reasoning in T 1.3.14 from which he ultim… | |
| Loeb 2009 | I.iii.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …juncture where projection, broadly construed, comes into play.) In the two definitions in I.iii.14 (T p. 169; cf. E p.… |
| Winkler 2010 | Treatise 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nner of conceiving of a particular power in a particular body" comes, as it happens, from Treatise 1.3.14, which contains ano… | |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …regularsuccession'or'constantconjunction 'and/or'feelingofdetermination'(forthedetails,see1.3.14oftheTreatise). Asfa… |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t hemind,notbelongtoit.' Inapposition,agroupofquotationsfromHume'sdiscussionofcausationin 1.3.14: 'thismultiplicity… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ausalpowerwhoseexistencemanifestsitselfinconstantconjunctionhassuffere dthesametreatmentin1.3.14).Hehasonhisownterms… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …sanolessdeepandinflexibleprinciplegivenwhich [P8C]seriesofexperiencesofthekindspecifiedin1.3.14giverisetotheideaofo… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ctandunanswerable.Whenhemovedonfromhisempiricistaccountofthecontentof theideaofcausationin1.3.14oftheTreatise,andhis… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ichunitescausesandeffects, liesinthedeterminationofthemindtopassfromtheonetotheother'(166/1.3.14. 23;fordiscussionse… | |
| Pitson 2012 | T 1.3.2-14 T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.… |
| Strawson 2012 | THN 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … - the PrincipleGoverned Mind described in THN 1.1.4 / 10-13 - with tremendous success in THN 1.3.14 / 155-72 ('Of the i… |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … THN 1.4.6 / 251-63 - after having devoted detailed attention to our idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72, and our i… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …to deprive himself of 'the uniting principle' (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10) that he had relied on in 1.3.14 and 1.4.2: 'the pri… | |
| 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …en he moved on from (3) his empiricist account of the content of the idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72 of the Tre… | |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.3.2-14 T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time (T 1.2.3; SBN 33-39), causation (T 1.3.2-14; SBN 73-172), the m… |
| Schwerin 2013 | (Treatise, p. 633) T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ess, I neither know how to correct my former opinions, nor how to render them consistent. (Treatise, p. 633) This honesty is ra… |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.3.14 T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …oduct of a conditioning process (specifically, the repetitive association of impressions [T 1.3.14; SBN 15572]). In th… |