Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 3: Of knowledge and probability · T 1.3.14 Of the idea of necessary connexion
T 1.3.14.26
SBN 167-8 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 10 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
But tho' this be the only reasonable account we can give of necessity, the contrary notion is so riveted in the mind from the principles above-mention'd, that I doubt not but my sentiments will be treated by many as extravagant and ridiculous. What! the efficacy of causes lie in the determination of the mind! As if causes did not operate entirely independent of the mind, and wou'd not continue their operation, even tho' there was no mind existent to contemplate them, or reason concerning them. Thought may well depend on causes for its operation, but not causes on thought. This is to reverse the order of nature, and make that secondary, which is really primary. To every operation there is a power proportion'd; and this power must be |plac'd on the body, that operates. If we remove the power from one cause, we must ascribe it to another: But to remove it from all causes, and bestow it on a being, that is no ways related to the cause or effect, but by perceiving them, is a gross absurdity, and contrary to the most certain principles of human reason.
A rare passage. Cited by at most three papers, at least one of them focused on personal identity (ROBHOP, 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 13 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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| Robison 1974 focused | (T168) T 1.3.14 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ensity (T172, 70) and upon the mind's mistaking its propensity for an external connection (T168). 2a The explanation… |
| Swain 2006 focused | T 1.3.14.26 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ow it on a being that is no ways related to the cause or effect, but by perceiving them" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 168), and sees… |
| T 1.3.14.26 this paragraph Citation pattern | …tion as "a gross absurdity, and contrary to the most certain principles of human reason" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 168). Hume als… | |
| T 1.3.14.26 this paragraph Citation pattern | … that "[t]hought may well depend on causes for its operation, but not causes on thought" (T 1.3.14.26; SBN 167). Although… | |
| 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… | |
| 1.3.14.16-33 T 1.3.14 (18 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ofobjects,alongwiththedeterminationofthemind,whichco nstitutesaphysicalnecessity'.(163-71/1.3.14.16-33) Asregardsthefirstg… | |
| 1.3.14.26 this paragraph Citation pattern | …tofthetraditionalinterpretationisgreat.Inmany,'thecontrarynoti onis.rivetedinthemind'(167/1.3.14.26).I'llmakeanotheratt… | |
| 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… | |
| 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… | |
| 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 | 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, … |
| Ainslie 1999 | (T 165-167) T 1.3.14 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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 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… | |
| 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 1.3.14.24-31 T 1.3.14 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …o the impression of determination from which the idea of necessary connection is derived (T 1.3.14.24-31; SBN 166-70). It is… |
| 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… | |
| 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… |