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" (...
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Do some philosophical questions tend to entertain vacuous ideas?
Empty, inane, devoid of value. This is a dictionary definition of the word "vacuous". Are vacuous ideas worthy of consideration? I mean no offence, but I fail to see the sensible intent ...
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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.
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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...) ...
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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 ...
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Are ideas mind independent, and if so what sort of ideas?
Are ideas mind independent, and if so what sort of ideas?
So did the idea I have of this table exist before I thought about the table? What about the idea of a warp drive or a mutriplot, a device that ...
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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 ...
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An object exist means what? And what is the relation of it with space and time?
If something exist mentally & physically, in both forms it is understandable that we have a Idea of it in mind as well as in reality or physically but , what about things which exists in the form ...
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Is soul motion? [closed]
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 ...
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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'...
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Why do we create? [closed]
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 ...
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Are Frege's "ideas" just qualia?
By Frege, there's a reference, sense and idea. I understand about reference and sense, but not about idea. Is it something like a quale?
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can the way a radically different idea is presented optimize the process of accommodation on the receiver's end? [closed]
when conveying a new idea known to be radically differ from the 'receivers' existing schemas, thus, more likely to be successfully processed by accommodation vs assimilation, are there certain ways to ...
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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? ...
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