Idea


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1 Doctrines of idea.
2 Ideas, or relations between ideas, as objects of thought or knowledge, the ideas as eternal forms.
3 Ideas or conceptions as that by which the mind thinks or knows.
4 Ideas as the data of sense-experience or their residues.
5 Ideas as the pure concepts of reason, regulative principles.
6 Ideas in the order of suprahuman intelligence or spirit, the eternal exemplars and archetypes, the modes of the divine mind.
7 Idea as the unity of determinate existence and concept, the Absolute Idea.
8 The origin or derivation of ideas in the human mind.
9 The infusion of ideas, divine illumination.
10 The innate endowment or retention of ideas, the activation of the mind's native content or structure by sense, by memory, or by experience.
11 The acquirement of ideas by perception or intuition, simple ideas or forms as direct objects of the understanding.
12 Reflection as a source of ideas, the mind's consideration of its own acts or content.
13 The genesis of ideas by the recollection of sense impressions, the images of sense.
14 The production of ideas by the reworking of the materials of sense, the imaginative construction of concepts or the formation of complex from simple ideas.
15 The abstraction of ideas from sense-experience, the concept as the first act of the mind, the grades of abstraction.
16 The derivation of transcendental ideas from the three syllogisms of reason.
17 The division of ideas according to their objective reference.
18 Ideas about things distinguished from ideas about ideas, the distinction between first and second intentions.
19 Adequate and inadequate ideas, clear and distinct ideas as compared with obscure and confused ideas.
20 Real and fantastic or fictional ideas, negations and chimeras.
21 The logic of ideas.
22 The verbal expression of ideas or concepts, terms.
23 The classification of terms, problems in the use of different kinds of terms.
24 Concrete and abstract terms.
25 Particular and universal terms.
26 Specific and generic terms, infimae species and summa genera.
27 Univocal and analogical terms.
28 The correlation, opposition, and order of terms.
29 Ideas or concepts in the process of thought.
30 Concept and judgment, the division of terms as subjects and predicates, kinds of subjects and predicates.
31 The position and sequence of terms in reasoning.
32 The dialectical employment of the ideas of reason.
33 The order of concepts in the stages of learning, the more and the less general.
34 The association, comparison, and discrimination of ideas, the stream of thought or consciousness.
35 The being and truth of ideas.
36 The distinction between real and intentional existence, between thing and idea, ideas as symbols, or intentions of the mind.
37 The nature and being of ideas in relation to the nature and being of the mind.
38 The agreement between an idea and its object, the criterion of adequacy in correspondence.
39 Clarity and distinctness in ideas as criteria of their truth.
40 The criterion of genesis, the test of an idea's truth or meaning by reference to its origin.
41 The truth and falsity of simple apprehensions, sensations, or conceptions, contrasted with the truth and falsity of judgments or assertions.


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