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T 1.3.14.23

SBN 166 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 9 more through page or section ranges · rare passage

Thus as the necessity, which makes two times two equal to four, or three angles of a triangle equal to two right ones, lies only in the act of the understanding, by which we consider and compare these ideas; in like manner the necessity or power, which unites causes and effects, lies in the determination of the mind to pass from the one to the other. The efficacy or energy of causes is neither plac'd in the causes themselves, nor in the deity, nor in the concurrence of these two principles; but belongs entirely to the soul, which considers the union of two or more objects in all past instances. 'Tis here that the real power of causes is plac'd, along with their connexion and necessity.

A rare passage. Cited by at most three papers, at least one of them focused on personal identity (SWAPIA-2). These are the passages a focused reader brought into the conversation that the literature otherwise passes by.

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3 of 12 papers cite this paragraph directly; the rest reach it through a page or section range. Snippets are the words around each citation.

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Loeb 19921.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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)
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…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)
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…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)
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…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…
(T 166)
T 1.3.14 (3 paragraphs)
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…ns, however related, can never give us any idea of power, or of a connexion betwixt them. (T 166) Although these pas…
1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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…
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T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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)
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…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)
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…extrinsic relations. He was clear that causation is extrinsic (T 169-70; E 76-77); and in 1.3.14 he intends to contr…
Swain 2006
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T 1.3.14.23
this paragraph
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…ely to the soul, which considers the union of two or more objects in all past instances" (T 1.3.14.23; SBN 166). This "pa…
Strawson 20111.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…regularsuccession'or'constantconjunction 'and/or'feelingofdetermination'(forthedetails,see1.3.14oftheTreatise). Asfa…
1.3.14.23
this paragraph
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…hisardor-ofyouthendorsementofextreme,Wittgensteinianglobalsubjectivismaboutnecess ity(166/1.3.14.23),whileretainingthei…
1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…t hemind,notbelongtoit.' Inapposition,agroupofquotationsfromHume'sdiscussionofcausationin 1.3.14: 'thismultiplicity…
1.3.14.16-33
T 1.3.14 (18 paragraphs)
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…ofobjects,alongwiththedeterminationofthemind,whichco nstitutesaphysicalnecessity'.(163-71/1.3.14.16-33) Asregardsthefirstg…
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…ausalpowerwhoseexistencemanifestsitselfinconstantconjunctionhassuffere dthesametreatmentin1.3.14).Hehasonhisownterms…
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T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…sanolessdeepandinflexibleprinciplegivenwhich [P8C]seriesofexperiencesofthekindspecifiedin1.3.14giverisetotheideaofo…
1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…ctandunanswerable.Whenhemovedonfromhisempiricistaccountofthecontentof theideaofcausationin1.3.14oftheTreatise,andhis…
1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…ichunitescausesandeffects, liesinthedeterminationofthemindtopassfromtheonetotheother'(166/1.3.14. 23;fordiscussionse…
Waxman 1992
focused
Treatise I.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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, …
Ainslie 1999(T 165-167)
T 1.3.14 (8 paragraphs)
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…s turns out to be a project ion onto them of our mind's tendency to associate their ideas (T 165-167) . Now, given that …
Ellis 2006
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T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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)
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…similar form in the preceding paragraphs of the Appendix.) The second is his reasoning in T 1.3.14 from which he ultim…
Loeb 2009I.iii.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…juncture where projection, broadly construed, comes into play.) In the two definitions in I.iii.14 (T p. 169; cf. E p.…
Winkler 2010Treatise 1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…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)
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…nner of conceiving of a particular power in a particular body" comes, as it happens, from Treatise 1.3.14, which contains ano…
Pitson 2012T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…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 2012THN 1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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… - 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)
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… 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)
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…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)
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…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 2013T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…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…
Rocknak 2019T 1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…oduct of a conditioning process (specifically, the repetitive association of impressions [T 1.3.14; SBN 15572]). In th…