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 1.4.5.10
SBN 235-6 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 13 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
'Twill not be surprizing after this, if I deliver a maxim, which is condemn'd by several metaphysicians, and is esteem'd contrary to the most certain principles of human reason. This maxim is that an object may exist, and yet be no where: and I assert, that this is not only possible, but that the greatest part of beings do and must exist after this manner. An object may be said to be no where, when its parts are not so situated with respect to each other, as to |form any figure or quantity; nor the whole with respect to other bodies so as to answer to our notions of contiguity or distance. Now this is evidently the case with all our perceptions and objects, except those of the sight and feeling. A moral reflection cannot be plac'd on the right or on the left hand of a passion, nor can a smell or sound be either of a circular or a square figure. These objects and perceptions, so far from requiring any particular place, are absolutely incompatible with it, and even the imagination cannot attribute it to them. And as to the absurdity of supposing them to be no where, we may consider, that if the passions and sentiments appear to the perception to have any particular place, the idea of extension might be deriv'd from them, as well as from the sight and touch; contrary to what we have already establish'd. If they appear not to have any particular place, they may possibly exist in the same manner; since whatever we conceive is possible.
A rare passage. Cited by at most three papers, at least one of them focused on personal identity (1173780). These are the passages a focused reader brought into the conversation that the literature otherwise passes by.
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3 of 16 papers cite this paragraph directly; the rest reach it through a page or section range. Snippets are the words around each citation.
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| 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… |
| T 1.4.5.9-10 T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ons of objects that Hume says are nowhere - namely those of tastes, smells, and the like (T 1.4.5.9-10; see Garrett 1981: … | |
| 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… | |
| T 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …, desires, moral reflections, smells, sounds, and tastes can exist "and yet be no where" (T 1.4.5.10). These perceptions… | |
| 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… | |
| Strawson 2011 | 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… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …hatitw ouldbeasimplemistaketothinkthatHume'sclaimthatmanyperceptionsexist'now here'(235-6/1.4.5.10)providesmaterialsfo… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ythismovemayrerunthepointfortherestrictedcaseofthe'perceptions.ofthesightandfeeling' (236/1.4.5.10)).Forsomefurtherdis… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …heAppendixs temscruciallyfromhiscommitmenttotheviewthatsomeperceptionsexist'nowher e'(235/1.4.5.10).DonGarretthasrecen… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | ….olfactoryorauditorysensationsor moralreflections,exist'nowhere',i.e.nowhereinspace(235-6/1.4.5.10).I'l lcalltheseperc… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …isualandtactileperceptions,are'extended', andpresumablythereforeexistsomewhereinspace(236/1.4.5.10). I'llcallthese'Som… | |
| 1.4.5.10 this paragraph Citation pattern | …isextendedanddivisible;since'tisimpossibletofoundarelation1butonsomeco mmonquality.(235-6/1.4.5.10) I'llbeginwithsomeg… | |
| 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… | |
| Garrett 1981 | (T235) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ry connexion in nature." He asserts (E), just prior to the section "Of personal identity" (T235), because in his vie… |
| 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… | |
| 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… | |
| 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… |
| 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 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… | |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 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 … |