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Single Idea 19423
[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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Full Idea
What I mean by an idea is not a certain act of thinking, but a power or faculty such that we have an idea of a thing even if we are not thinking about it but know that we can think it when the occasion arises.
Gist of Idea
By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (What is an Idea? [1676], p.281)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.281
A Reaction
'Idea' tends to be used in the seventeenth century to mean an actual mental event. It is because Leibniz believes in the unconscious mind that he can offer this rather different, and probably superior, notion of an 'idea'.
Related Idea
Idea 19427
True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]
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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