Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy · T 1.4.5 Of the immateriality of the soul
T 1.4.5.1
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HAVING found such contradictions and difficulties in every system concerning external objects, and in the idea of matter, which we fancy so clear and determinate, we shall naturally expect still greater difficulties and contradictions in every hypothesis concerning our internal perceptions, and the nature of the mind, which we are apt to imagine so much more obscure, and uncertain. But in this we shou'd deceive ourselves. The intellectual world, tho' involv'd in infinite obscurities, is not perplex'd with any such contradictions, as those we have discover'd in the natural. What is known concerning it, agrees with itself; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so.
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| Swain 1991 | Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … together by the relation of cause and effect."4 Drawing on arguments he had developed in Treatise 1.4.5 and 6, Hume shows i… |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …,13 but rather to correct the mistaken impression Hume may have given at the beginning of Treatise 1.4.5 ("Of the immaterial… | |
| (T 232) T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …concerning it, agrees with itself; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so" (T 232). Hume then noted th… | |
| (T 232) T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … those we have discover'd in the natural. What is known concerning it, agrees with itself (T 232). - 24.It should be … | |
| Waxman 1992 focused | (T 232) T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …equip us to explain this. We can, if we like, try to penetrate its "infinite obscurities" (T 232) and "run into the n… |
| McIntyre 2003 | Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …on of the Soul, however, it is surprising that they do not comment on Hume's arguments in Treatise 1.4.5, "Of the immaterial… |
| T 1.4.5.15, 1 T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ce, either material or immaterial, because some of our perceptions are actually extended (T 1.4.5.15, 1.4.5.33; SBN 239-40,… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …dvantage to the materialists above their antagonists" (T 1.4.5.32; SBN 250). Attention to Treatise 1.4.5 shows that prior to… | |
| Ellis 2006 focused | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … summarizes arguments Hume lays out earlier in the Treatise, mostly arguments advanced in T 1.4.5. In these two parag… |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …he self's distinct perceptions together is itself in tension with Hume's earlier claim in T 1.4.5 that the "intellect… | |
| T 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | … not perplex'd with any such contradictions, as those we have discover'd in the natural" (T 1.4.5.1; SBN 232).9 This i… | |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …referring to are from two different places in the Treatise. The first is his reasoning in T 1.4.5 that perceptions ar… | |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …lain what actually connects distinct perceptions together is in tension with his claim in T 1.4.5 that the intellectu… | |
| Swain 2006 focused | T 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | …t that the passage in the Appendix refers to Hume's claim about the intellectual world in T 1.4.5.1.) In the Appendix … |
| T 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | …dea of the self. Hume says the former contain "contradictions" as well as "difficulties" (T 1.4.5.1; SBN 232), while th… | |
| T 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ncerning it, agrees with itself ; and what is unknown, we must be contented to leave so. (T 1.4.5.1; SBN 232; my italic… | |
| Ainslie 2008 focused | T 1.4.5.9-10, 1 T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … denies that contiguity can apply to perceptions themselves, as opposed to their objects (T 1.4.5.9-10, 1.4.6.17). Just as th… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ndindependentexternalobjects,orin'theideaofmatter,whichwefancysoclearand determinate'(232/1.4.5.1),ortheideaofobjecti… |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …oryofmeaning.33 Bywayoffurtherproof,considertherathercharmingmovehemakesalittle lateronin1.4.5.'Thisgivesmeanoccas… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ofobjectsconstitutesthev eryessenceofcauseandeffect.asfaraswehaveanynotionofthatrelation'(1.4.5 .33/250).Withregard… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …denteveryperceptionisasub stance,andeverydistinctpartofaperceptionadistinctsubstance'(244/1.4.5. 24).Ittakespractic… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …yandCausation;whicharetheonlybondsthatuniteourt houghtstogether.'. Comparethemovehemakesin1.4.5,discussedonp.50abov… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …hichareplainlyresembling,asimplyingbothofthemanideaoftheobj ect.'(15/1.1.5.8).Inapassagein1.4.5alreadyquoted,hewrit… | |
| Noonan 2012 focused | THN 1.4.5.1 this paragraph Citation pattern | …s not perplexed with any such contradictions as those we have discovered in the natural' (THN 1.4.5.1 / 232). By the time… |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … aspects of the self, those relating to the mind. In "Of the Immateriality of the Soul" (T 1.4.5)-a section which sh… |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tions with that of a substance-in other words, the very view of mind he has criticized in T 1.4.5 as being unintellig… | |
| T 1.4.5.21, 1 T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … example, Descartes on the essence of matter (T 1.3.14.8; SBN 159), Spinoza on substance (T 1.4.5.21, 1.4.5.23; SBN 243, 24… | |
| Cottrell 2015 | T 1.4.5.5-6, 1 T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tion between a mind and its perceptions is that of a substance to its modes or accidents (T 1.4.5.5-6, 1.4.6.3; SBN 233-34, … |
| SBN 15-16, 17, 27, 232-33 T 1.1.5.6 to T 1.4.5.5 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …a of" and "idea that represents," see, for example, T 1.1.6.1, 1.1.6.3, 1.2.1.3, 1.4.5.3; SBN 15-16, 17, 27, 232-33. ## J ONATHAN COT … | |
| Loeb 1992 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ets a number of the nearly synonymous notions not only in 1.3.14, but also at T 246-51 of 1.4.5, and T 632-33 of th… |
| Spector 1998 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the entire empirical project to its logical conclusion. 40THN 1.4.4, pp. 225-231. 41THN 1.4.5, pp. 232-251. 42It… |
| 1.4.4-5 T 1.4.4.1 to T 1.4.5.31 n49 (58 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ation of the concept of identity is especially important with the concept of self. 49THN 1.4.4-5, pp. 225-251. Hume … | |
| THN 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …velops a way to answer the odd person in Book II's anatomical account of the passions. 5ITHN 1.4.5, concluding at para… | |
| Green 1999 focused | (231–2) T 1.4.4.14 to T 1.4.5.3 (5 paragraphs) Checked by model | …hroughout a person's life and perceptions of something in the mind other than perceptions (231–2). Although the first… |
| Mcintyre 2009 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ositions Collins had defended found a congenial home in Hume's Treatise. ## ii. treatise 1.4.5 and hume's account … |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d hume's account of the self Hume's extended account of the nature of the self begins in Treatise 1.4.5, "Of the immaterial… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … the central questions debated by Clarke and Collins. Of course, even before they reached 1.4.5, readers of the Tre… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity" (T 1.4.2.39). Hume's opening argument in Treatise 1.4.5 continues the criti… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e of perceptions is no obstacle to their standing in causal relations to each other. Thus Treatise 1.4.5 ends having establi… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …em of personal identity can therefore be summed up in the following way: the arguments of Treatise 1.4.5 show that the mind … | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …reason can give of the material world." 24 This sentence refers to the first paragraph of Treatise 1.4.5, Of the immateriali… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …bjects with continued and independent existence. The account of the intellectual world in Treatise 1.4.5, Of the immateriali… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d is nothing but perceptions, without an underlying substance. There is no need, then, in 1.4.5 to posit a feigned … | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … feigned "double existence" resulting from adherence to two contrary principles. In fact, 1.4.5 presents a clever a… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …T 1.4.6.19-20). This progression is the natural development of the position arrived at in 1.4.5, namely, that there… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re, and hence that the mind can be nothing but perceptions and their causal relations. In 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 Hume neve… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …. Initially, therefore, there did not appear to be a problem with the account embedded in 1.4.5 and 1.4.6. Unfortu… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ions indicated that he had lost his confidence that philosophical arguments like those in Treatise 1.4.5-6 could counterbalanc… | |
| T 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ovides examples of the persistence of many of the main tenets Hume sought to establish in T 1.4.5-6, even in passages n… | |
| T 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …gument of this section of the Enquiry supports many of the conclusions Hume argued for in T 1.4.5-6. Everything we know… | |
| Garrett 2010 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …bstance, first offered in the section of the Treatise "Of the immateriality of the soul" (T 1.4.5) but partly repeate… |
| Thiel 2011 | I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …elevance of Book II to his account of personal identity. Other important sections include I.iv.5 on the immaterialit… |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …y and indivisibility of the human soul as substance is dealt with in the previous section I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). Th… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). There, certain 'theologians' are Hume's target. Clearly, section I.iv.5 on immateriality pr… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ty is not relevant here; but he does not explain why. It should be obvious, however, from I.iv.5, where he argues th… | |
| Treatise I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of the mind as a substance is an 'unintelligible' one (ibid.)-a point that Hume makes in Treatise I.iv.5. 'We have no idea o… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e, 3 vols. (1898), vol. 1, p. 317. (13) Ibid., p. 323. (14) Ibid., p. 325. For section I.iv.5 and its importance … | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the Simplicity of the Soul', Hume Studies, 21 (1995), 25-45. For the relationship between I.iv.5 and 6, see 26. See … | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …and Tomaselli (1996), pp. 175-90. As Wright emphasises, referring especially to Treatise, I.iv.5, and the essay 'On … | |
| Strawson 2012 | THN 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re] in themselves perfectly distinct' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 253). 9 Compare the move he makes in THN 1.4.5 / 232-51, discussed… |
| Pereira 2014 | THN I.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … nutren con consideraciones adicionales que elabora al discutir la idea de sustancia (cf. THN I.4.5; SBN 231). El eleme… |
| Greco 2015 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … where Hume's "official theory" of personal identity is commonly found (T 1.4.6, but also T 1.4.5, and then the Appen… |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.4.5.1-35 T 1.4.5 (35 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …N 225-231) and the notion of an immaterial soul ("Of the immateriality of the soul," i.e. T 1.4.5.1-35; SBN 232-251). Hum… |
| 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 … |