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Single Idea 12938
[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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Full Idea
An idea is an immediate inner object, which expresses the nature or qualities of things, ..but since it is the object of thought it can exist before and after the thoughts.
Gist of Idea
An idea is an independent inner object, which expresses the qualities of things
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.01)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.109
A Reaction
This sounds something like Frege's 'third realm' between mind and world (Idea 7740). Notice that Leibniz is also using the word 'object' in this context. Leibniz doesn't make the mistake of confusing concepts and images, as many did.
Related Idea
Idea 7740
There exists a realm, beyond objects and ideas, of non-spatio-temporal thoughts [Frege, by Weiner]
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[mental events which internally represent reality]:
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5685
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True ideas are images, such as of a man, a chimera, or God
[Descartes]
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21807
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Ideas are powerful entities, which can produce further ideas
[Spinoza, by Schmid]
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4830
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An 'idea' is a mental conception which is actively formed by the mind in thinking
[Spinoza]
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4842
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Ideas are not images formed in the brain, but are the conceptions of thought
[Spinoza]
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20311
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An idea involves affirmation or negation
[Spinoza]
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6486
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Ideas are the objects of understanding when we think
[Locke]
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15967
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The word 'idea' covers thinking best, for imaginings, concepts, and basic experiences
[Locke]
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12496
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Complex ideas are all resolvable into simple ideas
[Locke]
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12945
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Thoughts correspond to sensations, but ideas are independent of thoughts
[Leibniz]
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12938
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An idea is an independent inner object, which expresses the qualities of things
[Leibniz]
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19357
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The idea of green seems simple, but it must be compounded of the ideas of blue and yellow
[Leibniz]
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12950
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We must distinguish images from exact defined ideas
[Leibniz]
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19427
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True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions
[Leibniz]
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19423
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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think
[Leibniz]
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5374
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Berkeley probably used 'idea' to mean both the act of apprehension and the thing apprehended
[Russell on Berkeley]
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23630
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Only philosophers treat ideas as objects
[Reid]
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12615
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Mental representations are the old 'Ideas', but without images
[Fodor]
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5636
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Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions
[Scruton]
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