Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy · T 1.4.2 Of scepticism with regard to the senses
T 1.4.2.37
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Nothing is more certain from experience, than that any contradiction either to the sentiments or passions gives a sensible uneasiness, whether it proceeds from without or from within; from the opposition of external objects, or from the combat of internal principles. On the contrary, whatever strikes in with the natural propensities, and either externally forwards their satisfaction, or internally concurs |with their movements, is sure to give a sensible pleasure. Now there being here an opposition betwixt the notion of the identity of resembling perceptions, and the interruption of their appearance, the mind must be uneasy in that situation, and will naturally seek relief from the uneasiness. Since the uneasiness arises from the opposition of two contrary principles, it must look for relief by sacrificing the one to the other. But as the smooth passage of our thought along our resembling perceptions makes us ascribe to them an identity, we can never without reluctance yield up that opinion. We must, therefore, turn to the other side, and suppose that our perceptions are no longer interrupted, but preserve a continu'd as well as an invariable existence, and are by that means entirely the same. But here the interruptions in the appearance of these perceptions are so long and frequent, that 'tis impossible to overlook them; and as the appearance of a perception in the mind and its existence seem at first sight entirely the same, it may be doubted, whether we can ever assent to so palpable a contradiction, and suppose a perception to exist without being present to the mind. In order to clear up this matter, and learn how the interruption in the appearance of a perception implies not necessarily an interruption in its existence, 'twill be proper to touch upon some principles, which we shall have occasion to explain more fully afterwards[40].
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| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ceswithcertainsortsofresemblan ce,constancy,andcoherencecharacteristics'(forthedetails,see1.4.2oftheT reatise).Ifon… |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ishesitfrom{E}. -I'mnotsosure.Inhisdiscussionoftherelationbetweenperceptionsand objectsin1.4.2,Humewritesasfollows… | |
| 1.4.2.37 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ropertotouchuponsomeprinciples,whichweshallhaveoccasiontoexplainmorefu llyafterwards.(206/1.4.2.37) Atthispointafootn… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rawnoclearconclusions aboutHume'sviewsonthemetaphysicsofperceptionsfromthecomplicationsof 1.4.2(theybeginat193/1.4.… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tionthatphysicalobjectsmightbediffere ntfromperceptionshasbeenclassifiedasunintelligiblein1.4.2(andafterthec ausalp… | |
| 1.4.2.18-42 T 1.4.2 (25 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rmentalco ntents. Hume'sprincipalaccountofthisisin200-04/1.4.2.29-34,ormorewidely194-209 /1.4.2.18-42. ThisiscompressedI'… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …forcause,'S'for self).Thefirstsub-principleis [P8O]seriesofexperiencesofthekindspecifiedin1.4.2giverisetotheideaofc… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …raceb ack(p.129)totheshiftingbetween'perception'andobject'whichHumeauthorize dforhimselfin1.4.2,andwhichIwon'ttryto… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tionin1.3.14oftheTreatise,andhisempiricistaccountoftheco ntentoftheideaofphysicalobjectsin1.4.2,andtooktheideaofthe… | |
| Pereira 2014 | THN I.4.2.37 this paragraph Citation pattern | … de Hume, la imaginación soluciona esta tensión a través de una ficción de identidad (cf. THN I.4.2.37; SBN 206). En la ex… |
| Loeb 1992 | 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …Hume's discussion of the "constancy" (as distinct from the "coherence") of perceptions in 1.4.2, "Of scepticism wit… |
| Spector 1998 | THN 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …xception to those who separate the discussions of bodily and mental continuity. He thinks THN 1.4.2 ("Scepticism with R… |
| THN 1.4.2.22-40 T 1.4.2 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ume gives an even more detailed explanation of the principles of the mind at work here at THN 1.4.2.22-40, pp. 199-209. 28To… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …is aspect of the personal identity problem when he discussed bodily continuity in Book I (1.4.2), before engaging i… | |
| Roth 2000 | I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rson or mind, identical' through time. 12 See 'Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses' (I.iv.2) and 'Of the Ancien… |
| I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s.. .(T217-18, my emphasis) In sum, Hume's discussion of object identity in the sections I.iv.2 and I.iv.3 of the T… | |
| I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …would have supposed should have found their way into his earlier discussion of objects in I.iv.2 and I.iv.3. This ne… | |
| Ainslie 2003 | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …cognize that it goes to the heart of his explanation of our belief in external objects in T 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, and so h… |
| Flage 2004 | Treatise I.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n synchronic identity. He examines parallels between Hume's accounts of the idea of body (Treatise I.4.2) and the idea of pe… |
| Ellis 2006 focused | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … 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 ideas of ca… |
| T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …hat the kind of explanation that he of fers of this relation in the case of ob j ects (in T 1.4.2) is unavailable to … | |
| T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tion, Hume's worry is a general one. It would apply no less to his genetic explanation in T 1.4.2 of the idea of cont… | |
| Inukai 2007 focused | I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ronger claim as to the nature of perceptions: perceptions are all distinct existences. In I.iv.2, Hume explains the … |
| Ainslie 2008 focused | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t that suggests such a picture can be found in "Of scepticism with regard to the senses" (T 1.4.2) where Hume says th… |
| T 1.4.2, 1 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rts of the Treatise that attempt to explain our beliefs in the unity of external objects (T 1.4.2, 1.4.3). Though the i… | |
| Ainslie 2009 | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rectly (according to the processes explored in "Of scepticism with regard to the senses" [T 1.4.2]), yield an awarene… |
| Loeb 2009 | I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …hesis that there are 'contradictions ... in every system concerning external objects'?per I.iv.2, 'and in the idea o… |
| I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …, so that the inconsistency surfaces, without Hume taking any note of it, at the heart of I.iv.2. Any whiff of contr… | |
| Mcintyre 2009 | Treatise 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rs of the Treatise could not be in much doubt about the broad outline of Hume's position. Treatise 1.4.2, Of scepticism with… |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n the natural" world. Through that comment, it also refers indirectly to the arguments of 1.4.2, Of scepticism with… | |
| Treatise 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of the imagination lead to contradictory results. The associations of ideas described in Treatise 1.4.2 lead to belief in t… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … personal identity, however, reopens the problem of inconsistency. In this section, as in 1.4.2, the association of… | |
| T 1.4.2.31-43 T 1.4.2 (13 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …r time. The structure of the argument in T 1.4.6.6 is the same as that of the argument in T 1.4.2.31-43. Consequently, the … | |
| Thiel 2011 | I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s linked to his discussion of identity in earlier sections in the Treatise, especially to I.iv.2 (ibid., pp. 189-90;… |
| I.iv.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …of both invariableness and uninterruptedness of perception, and he does this at length in I.iv.2 (ibid., pp. 201-5),… | |
| Rocknak 2012 focused | 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …art system and the philosophical position (where, recall, both are initially presented in 1.4.2, and to some degree… |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … indeed have an idea of ourselves ( contra Robison 1974 ) . ## 3.1 A Return to 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 Not surprisingly, … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …6.15; SBN 259). Thus, it is reasonable to view 1.4.6 as a return to 1.3.2.2; SBN 73-4 and 1.4.2, where, recall, Hum… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t, thanks to transcendental machinery, admits of a perfect identity-which, he explains in 1.4.2, is not to be confu… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | ….4.6 seems to rely heavily on what Hume has already established in 1.3.2.2; SBN 74 and in 1.4.2, both in regard to … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …y." Immediately, Hume's account of the principle of individuation, presented in part 1 of 1.4.2's four part system,… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …erous]" as "time" remains constant ( T 1.4.2.29; SBN 201). Accordingly, Hume concludes in 1.4.2 that: "Here then is… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …201). Thus, given the conceptual similarities, I think that we must conclude that he has 1.4.2's principle of indi… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …each other. Once again, these remarks bear a striking resemblance to certain passages in 1.4.2, but now we see tha… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ained above, he seems to be thinking of the notion of perfect identity given in Part I of 1.4.2's system, i.e. the … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | ….4.6, similar "feelings" play exactly the same role that similar "dispositions" played in 1.4.2 in regard to vulgar… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …he two "feelings" that the imagination respectively places us in. For, as was the case in 1.4.2, the imagination is… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ssed at length in Chap. 8 (again, recall Fig. 8.1). Moreover, exactly as was the case in 1.4.2, Hume reminds us in… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nd, Hume adds here, invariable and variable, a contradiction that he does not focus on in 1.4.2. In 1.4.2, we saw … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ds here, invariable and variable, a contradiction that he does not focus on in 1.4.2. In 1.4.2, we saw that while … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ing perceptions. In turn, we imagine an unperceived impression, or what Hume refers to in 1.4.2 as a "continu'd and… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …urselves this absurdity," we don't make the same mistake. Rather, just as was the case in 1.4.2, we (the vulgar) "o… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … " self ." Immediately following, and also entirely consistent with the account given in 1.4.2, Hume reminds us th… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tollens that, as was explained in Chap. 9 , is used to repudiate vulgar perspective II in 1.4.2. Rather, he seems t… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …5; SBN 253). To make his case, we saw that Hume revisits much of the ground he covered in 1.4.2, particularly parts… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of the Vulgar v. the Philosophical Perspective Immediately after revisiting the bulk of 1.4.2's four-part system,… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … explained by the principle of individuation, i.e. the account given in part 1 of Hume's 1.4.2 system, as well as … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …vulgar perspective I is a very real psychological phenomenon. But unlike what he says in 1.4.2, in this section of… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the imperfect identity" ( T 1.4.6.9; SBN 256; emphasis added). Exactly as was the case in 1.4.2, where we conceive … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ntity to the object. ( T 1.4.6.10; SBN 256) However, exactly as we saw to be the case in 1.4.2, vulgar perspective… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …dividuation , which, recall, represents a transcendental process. Just as was the case in 1.4.2 in regard to his ex… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ssing, and does not explicitly discuss its relationship to the idea of time, as he did in 1.4.2: We may also consi… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …Hume's earlier discussion of the "medium betwixt unity and number" discussed in part 1 of 1.4.2's system, for they … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …lation to his general accounts of identity, particularly, the accounts given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2, and, the preceding… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …anic things) and any of the inorganic objects that Hume may have had in mind in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2. Having underlined … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …4.6.21; SBN 262). Consistent with Hume's accounts of perfect identity given in 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 8 (regardless if it… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …are ever discoverable by human understanding" ( T App. 20; SBN 635). For instance, recall 1.4.2. where Hume argues … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e. ## 10 Summary In this chapter we saw that: 1. Although Hume discusses variations of 1.4.2's principle of indi… | |
| Strawson 2012 | THN 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ty or power in the world. He uses this conception of the Principle-Governed Mind again in THN 1.4.2 / 187-218 ('Of scep… |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …attention to our idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72, and our idea of external bodies in 1.4.2 / 187-218 - Hume fi… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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 principle of … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …reatise, and (5) his empiricist account of the content of the idea of physical objects in 1.4.2 / 187218, and took … | |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s of identity and diversity and a similar assumption underlies his lengthy explanation in T 1.4.2 of our belief in bo… |
| T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …bstance (T 1.4.6.6; SBN 253-54). What Hume says here obviously echoes his explanation in T 1.4.2 of belief in the ex… | |
| T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rom Book 1 of the Treatise through post-Treatise writings such as the Dialogues. Thus, in T 1.4.2 we find Hume antici… | |
| Cottrell 2015 | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …of identity. Let me therefore explain. For him, "identity" is just identity through time (T 1.4.2.2630; SBN 200-201).… |
| T 1.4.2.31-43 T 1.4.2 (13 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ption, which attributes the defining properties of a body to certain sensory impressions (T 1.4.2.31-43; SBN 201-10), and t… | |
| 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… | |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …roperty of uninterruptedness. In some places, he speaks of imagining a continuous object (T 1.4.2; 15-24; SBN 194-199… |
| T 1.4.2.37-40 T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …f an uninterrupted and invariable unperceived perception (i.e. an unperceived impression (T 1.4.2.37-40; SBN 205-8)). 13 Ho… | |
| T 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n regard to our conception of objects and 3.) "Of skepticism with regard to the senses," (T 1.4.2.2530; SBN 199-201) … | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …icism with regard to the senses," (T 1.4.2.2530; SBN 199-201) which constitutes part 1 of 1.4.2's four part system,… | |
| T 1.4.2.31-40 T 1.4.2 (10 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ak 2013: 181-3). 15 The bulk of Hume's discussion of the vulgar position is discussed in T 1.4.2.31-40; SBN 201-8 and inte… | |
| 1.4.2 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ngeably with uninterruptedness and invariability. 18 Although Hume discusses variants of 1.4.2's principle of iden… |