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 1.4.2.38
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We may begin with observing, that the difficulty in the present case is not concerning the matter of fact, or whether the mind forms such a conclusion concerning the continu'd existence of its perceptions, but only concerning the manner in which the conclusion is form'd, and principles from which it is deriv'd. 'Tis certain, that almost all mankind, and even philosophers themselves, for the greatest part of their lives, take their perceptions to be their only objects, and suppose, that the very being, which is intimately present to the mind, is the real body or material existence. 'Tis also certain, that |this very perception or object is suppos'd to have a continu'd uninterrupted being, and neither to be annihilated by our absence, nor to be brought into existence by our presence. When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. When we are present, we say we feel, or see it. Here then may arise two questions; First, How we can satisfy ourselves in supposing a perception to be absent from the mind without being annihilated. Secondly, After what manner we conceive an object to become present to the mind, without some new creation of a perception or image; and what we mean by this seeing, and feeling, and perceiving.
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| Butchvarov 1959 | " (p. 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …serting that " there is no absurdity in separating any particular perception from the mind" (p. 207). 11 A Treatise Con… |
| " (p. 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …nly " a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations " (p. 207), that is, in our in… | |
| " (p. 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …its relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being " (p. 207). The important fac… | |
| " (p. 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …ing their number by present reflexions and passions, and in storing the memory with ideas " (p. 207). If we interpret th… | |
| Nathanson 1976 | (207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …tions, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity. (207) The appendix refer… |
| Patten 1976 focused | " (207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …Hume: "...there is no absurdity in separating any particular perception from the mind; ..." (207) . What a remark lik… |
| Penelhum 1992 | (T 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ts relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being" (T 207). 23. I have wondere… |
| Waxman 1992 focused | (T 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ts relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being. (T 207) The upshot of this… |
| (T 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … be detached from "that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being" (T 207) and exist entirely … | |
| Humber 1995 focused | (Treatise, 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ertain relations... ," and he speaks of the mind as a "connected mass of perceptions...." (Treatise, 207) 13This interpretat… |
| Green 1999 focused | (207-8) T 1.4.2 (5 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …ns involves no contradiction. We may easily indulge our inclination to that supposition. (207-8) Regardless of how … |
| ' (207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …such a relation to a connected heap of perceptions, as to influence them very considerably' (207). To see or feel an … | |
| ' (207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …l its relations, with that connected mass of perceptions which constitute a thinking being' (207). Consciousness, it … | |
| Penelhum 2000 focused | T 1. iv. 2. 207 T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being' (T 1. iv. 2. 207). , II 98 The Self… |
| T 1. iv. 2. 207 T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tuitive access to the deeper facts on which these sequences depend. When Hume tells us at T 1. iv. 2. 207 that there is no ab… | |
| T 1. iv. 2. 207 T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e mind is 'suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity' (T 1. iv. 2. 207) there is no good r… | |
| Winkler 2000 focused | (T 207) T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ations, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity" (T 207). One feature of th… |
| 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 T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …rawnoclearconclusions aboutHume'sviewsonthemetaphysicsofperceptionsfromthecomplicationsof 1.4.2(theybeginat193/1.4.… | |
| 1.4.2.38 this paragraph Citation pattern | …satisfyourselvesin supposingaperceptiontobeabsentfromthemindwithoutbeingannihilated'(207/ 1.4.2.38)- hebrieflymentions… | |
| 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… | |
| 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 1.4.2.36, 38 T 1.4.2 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nto thinking that certain resembling sense-impressions may be identified with each other (T 1.4.2.36, 38; SBN 205, 207). As … | |
| 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… | |
| 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… |
| (T pp. 207, 210-11) T 1.4.2 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …p. 132,137,138). This would be unfortunate; the two arguments appear six paragraphs apart (T pp. 207, 210-11), so that the incons… | |
| 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… |