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Single Idea 1330
[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Full Idea
As the same individual republic may not only change its members, but also its laws and constitutions; in like manner the same person may vary his character and disposition, as well as his impressions and ideas, without losing his identity.
Gist of Idea
If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual
Source
David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], I.IV.6)
Book Ref
'Personal Identity', ed/tr. Perry,John [University of California 1975], p.170
The
60 ideas
from 'Treatise of Human Nature'
11098
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Momentary impressions are wrongly identified with one another on the basis of resemblance
[Hume, by Quine]
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5548
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Hume became a total sceptic, because he believed that reason was a deception
[Hume, by Kant]
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7446
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The idea of inductive evidence, around 1660, made Hume's problem possible
[Hume, by Hacking]
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3819
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Hume's 'bundle' won't distinguish one mind with ten experiences from ten minds
[Searle on Hume]
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6526
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Hume says objects are not a construction, but an imaginative leap
[Hume, by Robinson,H]
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6489
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Associationism results from having to explain intentionality just with sense-data
[Robinson,H on Hume]
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6182
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Even Hume didn't include mathematics in his empiricism
[Hume, by Kant]
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20030
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If one event causes another, the two events must be wholly distinct
[Hume, by Wilson/Schpall]
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6692
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For Hume, practical reason has little force, because we can always modify our desires
[Hume, by Graham]
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4008
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Modern science has destroyed the Platonic synthesis of scientific explanation and morality
[Hume, by Taylor,C]
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8067
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The problem of getting to 'ought' from 'is' would also apply in getting to 'owes' or 'needs'
[Anscombe on Hume]
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8382
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For Hume a constant conjunction is both necessary and sufficient for causation
[Hume, by Crane]
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19274
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Hume seems to presuppose necessary connections between mental events
[Kripke on Hume]
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12048
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The only meaning we have for substance is a collection of qualities
[Hume]
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7954
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If we see a resemblance among objects, we apply the same name to them, despite their differences
[Hume]
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9428
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Nothing we clearly imagine is absolutely impossible
[Hume]
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8649
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Two numbers are equal if all of their units correspond to one another
[Hume]
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4766
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Necessity only exists in the mind, and not in objects
[Hume]
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1207
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Both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity
[Hume]
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21290
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Multiple objects cannot convey identity, because we see them as different
[Hume]
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21289
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'An object is the same with itself' is meaningless; it expresses unity, not identity
[Hume]
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21292
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Saying an object is the same with itself is only meaningful over a period of time
[Hume]
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21291
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There is no medium state between existence and non-existence
[Hume]
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21293
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Individuation is only seeing that a thing is stable and continuous over time
[Hume]
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13424
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Aristotelians propose accidents supported by substance, but they don't understand either of them
[Hume]
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14301
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We have no good concept of solidity or matter, because accounts of them are all circular
[Hume]
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21296
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If all of my perceptions were removed by death, nothing more is needed for total annihilation
[Hume]
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1330
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If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual
[Hume]
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21299
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Changing a part can change the whole, not absolutely, but by its proportion of the whole
[Hume]
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1321
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If identity survives change or interruption, then resemblance, contiguity or causation must unite the parts of it
[Hume]
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21300
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A change more obviously destroys an identity if it is quick and observed
[Hume]
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21302
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If a ruined church is rebuilt, its relation to its parish makes it the same church
[Hume]
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21303
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We accept the identity of a river through change, because it is the river's nature
[Hume]
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21301
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The purpose of the ship makes it the same one through all variations
[Hume]
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1317
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A person is just a fast-moving bundle of perceptions
[Hume]
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1331
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The parts of a person are always linked together by causation
[Hume]
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1388
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Hume gives us an interesting sketchy causal theory of personal identity
[Perry on Hume]
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21297
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A person is simply a bundle of continually fluctuating perceptions
[Hume]
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1316
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Introspection always discovers perceptions, and never a Self without perceptions
[Hume]
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1333
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Memory only reveals personal identity, by showing cause and effect
[Hume]
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1332
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We use memory to infer personal actions we have since forgotten
[Hume]
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21305
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Memory not only reveals identity, but creates it, by producing resemblances
[Hume]
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21307
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Who thinks that because you have forgotten an incident you are no longer that person?
[Hume]
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21306
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Causation unites our perceptions, by producing, destroying and modifying each other
[Hume]
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21294
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A continuous lifelong self must be justified by a single sustained impression, which we don't have
[Hume]
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21295
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When I introspect I can only observe my perceptions, and never a self which has them
[Hume]
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21298
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We pretend our perceptions are continuous, and imagine a self to fill the gaps
[Hume]
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21304
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Identity in the mind is a fiction, like that fiction that plants and animals stay the same
[Hume]
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21806
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Memory, senses and understanding are all founded on the imagination
[Hume]
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22374
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You can only hold people responsible for actions which arise out of their character
[Hume]
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8257
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Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will
[Hume]
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3807
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Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions
[Hume]
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3650
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Total selfishness is not irrational
[Hume]
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4578
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You can't move from 'is' to 'ought' without giving some explanation or reason for the deduction
[Hume]
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22382
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We cannot discover vice by studying a wilful murder; that only arises from our own feelings
[Hume]
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12417
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Mathematicians only accept their own proofs when everyone confims them
[Hume]
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11950
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We have no idea of powers, because we have no impressions of them
[Hume]
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11949
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There may well be powers in things, with which we are quite unacquainted
[Hume]
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11941
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The distinction between a power and its exercise is entirely frivolous
[Hume]
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11942
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Power is the possibility of action, as discovered by experience
[Hume]
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