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 1.4.5.19
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I believe this brief exposition of the principles of that famous atheist will be sufficient for the present purpose, and that without entering farther into these gloomy and obscure regions, I shall be able to shew, that this hideous hypothesis is almost the same with that of the immateriality of the soul, which has become so popular. To make this evident, let us[45] remember, that as every idea is deriv'd from a preceding perception, 'tis impossible our idea of a perception, and that of an object or external existence can ever represent what are specifically different from each other. Whatever difference we may suppose betwixt them, 'tis still incomprehensible to us; and we are oblig'd either to conceive an external object merely as a relation without a relative, or to make it the very same with a perception or impression.
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| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.5.19 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ccountoftheimpossibilityofconceivingaspecifi cdifferencebetweenanobjectandaperception(241/1.4.5.19).Seefurther2.4be lo… |
| 1.4.5.19 this paragraph Citation pattern | …dcontents,giventhetermsofhistheoryofideas.Cf.e.g.218,lines6-11/1.4 .2.56,241;andlines20-4/1.4.5.19. (34)Cf.e.g.Strawso… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …oryofmeaning.33 Bywayoffurtherproof,considertherathercharmingmovehemakesalittle lateronin1.4.5.'Thisgivesmeanoccas… | |
| 1.4.5.17-33 T 1.4.5 (17 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …earproposingsomefartherreflectionsconcerningit.(240/1.4.5.17) Therefollowtenpages(240-50/1.4.5.17-33)ofbrilliantandemine… | |
| 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… | |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.4.5.19 this paragraph Citation pattern | …to question whether we can really make sense of the supposed difference between them (see T 1.4.5.19; SBN 241). Should w… |
| 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… | |
| SBN 218, 241 T 1.4.2.56 to T 1.4.5.19 n45 (6 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …lance while differing numerically from them (T 1.2.6.9; SBN 68; see T 1.4.2.56, 1.4.5.19; SBN 218, 241). The case of subst… | |
| Robison 1974 focused | (T241) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …y suppose, but never can conceive a specific difference betwixt an object and impression" (T241). We cannot conceive… |
| Davie 1984 | (T
241) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …relation without a relative, or to make it the very same with a perception or impression. (T 241) We cannot say that… |
| 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… |
| Humber 1995 focused | (Treatise, 241) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …external existence, can ever represent what are specifically different from one another." (Treatise, 241) In short, Hume beli… |
| 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… | |
| Winkler 2000 focused | (T 241) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …eologians. That soul issues in various modifications, without itself undergoing variation (T 241). Hume takes this to… |
| (T 241) T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re, are able to produce any composition or change in its perfect simplicity and identity" (T 241). 49. At T 107-109,… | |
| 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… | |
| 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 1.4.5.17-25 T 1.4.5 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …f the immateriality of the soul hold a theory indistinguishable from that of Spinoza (see T 1.4.5.17-25), whom they reviled… | |
| 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… |
| Cottrell 2015 | SBN 67, 241 T 1.2.6.4 to T 1.4.5.19 n45 (10 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …not conceive of anything "specifically different" from a perception (T 1.2.6.8, 1.4.5.19; SBN 67, 241); hence we can only… |
| 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 … |