Single Idea 12950

[catalogued under 18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas]

Full Idea

It is essential to distinguish images from exact ideas which are composed of definitions.

Gist of Idea

We must distinguish images from exact defined ideas

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.09)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.137


A Reaction

See Idea 12615, which is attacking Descartes and Locke, I think, but fails to register that Spinoza and Leibniz had got the notion of an 'idea' much more clearly.

Related Idea

Idea 12615 Mental representations are the old 'Ideas', but without images [Fodor]