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Single Idea 20311
[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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Full Idea
An idea, insofar as it is an idea, involves an affirmation or negation.
Gist of Idea
An idea involves affirmation or negation
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], II Pr 49 sII)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. Curley,Edwin [Penguin 1996], p.64
A Reaction
Spinoza clearly distinguishes ideas from images, and here seems to identify ideas with propositions. Nowadays we say these are 'true or false', but Spinoza is more personal and psychological. I prefer his way of putting it.
Related Idea
Idea 5776
A proposition is what we believe when we believe truly or falsely [Russell]
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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