Single Idea 20804

[catalogued under 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts]

Full Idea

A concept is a phantasm of the intellect of a rational animal.

Gist of Idea

Concepts are intellectual phantasms

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Pseudo-Plutarch - On the Doctrine of the Philosophers 900c

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.48


A Reaction

No doubt they assume that the brutes are devoid of all concepts, but that makes it hard to explain their behaviour.