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 1.4.5.7
SBN 234-5 · cited directly by 4 papers, reached by 14 more through page or section ranges · rare passage
There is one argument commonly employ'd for the immateriality of the soul, which seems to me remarkable. Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. But 'tis impossible any thing divisible can be conjoin'd to a thought or perception, which is a being altogether inseparable and indivisible. For supposing such a conjunction, wou'd the indivisible thought exist on the left or on the right hand of this extended divisible body? On the surface or in the middle? On the back- or fore-side of it? If it be conjoin'd with the extension, it must exist somewhere within its dimensions. If it exist within its dimensions, it must either exist in one particular part; and then that particular part is indivisible, and the perception is conjoin'd only with it, not with the extension: Or if the thought exists in every part, it must also be extended, and separable, and divisible, as well as the body; which is utterly absurd and contradictory. For can any one conceive a passion of a yard in length, a foot in breadth, and an inch in thickness? Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly in|compatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject.
A rare passage. Cited by at most three papers, at least one of them focused on personal identity (WAXHQC). These are the passages a focused reader brought into the conversation that the literature otherwise passes by.
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| Flage 1984 | (T, 234) T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … one has no idea of the relation that is said to obtain between a substance and its modes (T, 234). Such criticisms mi… |
| Waxman 1992 focused | (T 234) T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …uisite to support the existence of a perception. We have, therefore, no idea of inhesion. (T 234) The import of this… |
| 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 1.4.5.7 this paragraph Citation pattern | …are "qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject" (T 1.4.5.7). In the light of h… | |
| 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… | |
| Cottrell 2015 | SBN 233-34, 252 T 1.4.5.3 to T 1.4.6.4 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d 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, 252). Hume rejects each… |
| T 1.4.5.7 this paragraph Citation pattern | …ec- 53. Baxter (2008, 25-26) supports this claim with reference to T 1.2.2.3; SBN 30 and T 1.4.5.7; SBN 234. The "Abst… | |
| 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… |
| 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 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… | |
| 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 … |