Questions tagged [idea]
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What is the difference between an 'idea' and a 'concept'?
What is the difference between an 'idea' and a 'concept'?
Has a distinction between the two terms been settled and accepted by most modern philosophers?
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Dynamic concept of "truth"
I've recently read a book in which a certain sentence sparked a question in my mind:
"the Platonic philosophy is a search for truth, the certain truth.
Such truth... is necessarily static" (emphasis mine)
This popped a question to my head - is…
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How to build up clear ideas
I was reading Descartes' Rules for the direction of mind and noticed how clear are his ideas. I would love to speak in that way, where every sentence is a necessary step to climb up the final idea.
Of course, this magic is obtained by practice and…
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Name of the theory where abstract concepts are considered only to exist within our mind
I'm be no means an expert in philosophical terms, but I want to learn more. My question is about whether there is a name for the idea that abstract concepts (e.g. Goodness, baddness, value, etc...) exist only within our mind. I don't mean that to…
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Can "moral reasoning" be defined as a perception?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1996.tb01017.x
I saw this research paper titled "Moral reasoning as perception", and I was wondering how is it possible to conceive "moral reasoning" as a perception. I would agree that…
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What is the terminology to qualify things that are not reduced when shared (ideas vs physical objects)?
Is there a defined terminology to refer to things:
Which gets "reduced" when shared: for example if I have 2 apples and I give you one, now I have one apple
Which stays the same when shared: for example if I have an idea and I share it with you, I…
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Hobbes on imagination: mental images or ideas?
Hobbes, in his book Leviathan, second chapter, says:
So that imagination and memory are but one thing, which for diverse considerations hath diverse names. Much memory, or memory of many things, is called experience. Again, imagination being only…
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Is soul motion?
Has any philosopher shown that it is not?
Aristotle holds - that the soul is the form, or essence of any living thing.
René Descartes holds - that the mind is a nonphysical substance.
If we assume that:
Spirit is eternal, at least relative to our…
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Are Ideas Noumenal?
I've been studying Kant's philosophy recently and I haven't been able to get something straight.
Quick question here: How does Kant's distinction between phenomena/noumena apply to ideas and thoughts? Are there such things as thoughts or ideas…
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Do I have the right understanding of Hume's suggested association of ideas?
Hume, in his Treatise of Human Nature says: "two objects are connected together in the imagination, not only when the one is immediately resembling, contiguous to, or the cause of the other, but also when there is interposed betwixt them a third…
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Is Time just an idea?
All the things we perceive undergo changes as time goes by. Even if we didn't do anything, Time does 'its' work. For communication we use this word as an idea. If 'Time' were just an idea it couldn't have made any changes by itself. If so, is…
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Why do we create?
It could be an invention, or an idea, or anything. What is the main reason behind why we create things? I realize that there could be many reasons but I'm wondering if they can be summed up into one main reason.
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In how far is language involved in the world of ideas?
Language is a means to express ideas or emotions. It sets them free from the world in which they roam, i.e. our brain between our ears, inside our skulls.
It could work the other way too. Language being used to create or change ideas.
Which parts of…
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Do modern philosophers of mind believe that thinking is a symbolic or visual process by nature?
Do some philosophers regard thinking as a symbolic process only because they don't actually think for themselves -- rather, like most of us, they are "having thoughts", their subconsciousness (which itself is, technically, a neural network AI, a…
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Hume on Induction vs Education
Hume thinks that mental ideas are built upon repeated observations and habituation, namely by induction. As far as I know, the principal alternative to this view is given by Descartes, postulating that deductive reasoning can bring other ideas from…
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