Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy · T 1.4.3 Of the antient philosophy
T 1.4.3.8
SBN 222 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 9 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
But these philosophers carry their fictions still farther in their sentiments concerning occult qualities, and both suppose a substance supporting, which they do not understand, and an accident supported, of which they have as imperfect an idea. The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is deriv'd from principles as natural as any of these above-explain'd.
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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.
| Paper | Cited as | Context |
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| Swain 2006 focused | T 1.4.3.7-8 T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …substance or substratum) without having any coherent idea of what they are talking about (T 1.4.3.7-8; SBN 222-3). When … |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.3.8,77 this paragraph Citation pattern | …eee.g.33/1.2.3.1,162/1.3.14.14,648/Abs§7,78n/ 7.29n;imperfect,seee.g.18-23/1.1.7.2-14,222/1.4.3.8,77/7.29;deficient, see… |
| 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …indthanjustaseriesofexperiences. There'sahelpfulstatementofthemoderatescepticalpositionin1.4.3oftheTrea tise.Moder… | |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.4.3.1-11 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of objects, namely, the ancient conception of objects ("Of the antient philosophy," i.e. T 1.4.3.1-11; SBN 219-225), the … |
| T 1.4.3-5 T 1.4.3.1 to T 1.4.5.31 n49 (69 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …losophers imagine immaterial soul-objects, ideas of objects are not based on impressions (T 1.4.3-5; SBN 219-251). For … | |
| T 1.4.3.8 this paragraph Citation pattern | …sophical conceptions of objects are utterly "incomprehensible" and smack of the "occult" (T 1.4.3.8; SBN 222). However,… | |
| 1.4.3 - 1 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ion of the vulgar position is discussed in T 1.4.2.31-40; SBN 201-8 and intermittently in 1.4.3 - 1.4.6. 16 See (Rockn… | |
| Swain 1991 | (T 222) T 1.4.3 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nhesion are unintelligible or incomprehensible and may as well be called occult qualities (T 222). He makes the same … |
| Spector 1998 | 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … Soul and immaterial substance,4! facing the problem of mental continuity head on. 39THN 1.4.3, pp. 219-225. ## 3… |
| Ainslie 1999 | I.iv.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …source (and this not ion of a causal source is itself fictional Hume tells us [I.i.6; cf. I.iv.3] ). Wha t wou l d e… |
| Roth 2000 | I.iv.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …2 See 'Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses' (I.iv.2) and 'Of the Ancient Philosophy' (I.iv.3). 13 Even if you h… |
| I.iv.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …18, my emphasis) In sum, Hume's discussion of object identity in the sections I.iv.2 and I.iv.3 of the Treatise is … | |
| I.iv.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …supposed should have found their way into his earlier discussion of objects in I.iv.2 and I.iv.3. This new discussio… | |
| Ainslie 2003 | 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … 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 he would no… |
| Flage 2004 | Treatise I.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …es the parallels regarding belief in the simplicity and identity of material substance in Treatise I.4.3). Pitson writes: T… |
| Inukai 2007 focused | I.iv.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …, resemblance) holding among them. In speaking of our identity ascription to an object in I.iv.3, Hume talks as if t… |
| Ainslie 2008 focused | T 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ves no indication of an "I know not what" underlying the qualities (T 1.1.6.1-2; see also T 1.4.3). On the other hand… |
| 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nds of objects. He does not, however, return to the pre-modern substance theory (T 1.1.6; 1.4.3). Instead, objects … | |
| Kail 2008 | T 1.4.3 T 1.4.3 (11 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … substance is an application of Hume's general explanation of the concept of substance in T 1.4.3 'Of antient philoso… |