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Definition of Ideas

1. idea [n] - See also: idea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideas

Literary usage of Ideas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"CHAPTER XII. OF COMPLEX ideas. I. WE have hitherto considered those ideas, in the re- BOOK n. ception whereof the mind is only ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Pathological Dissociation of ideas (Incoherence) In severe disturbances of association, the connections among ideas may be very seriously altered. ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Of ideas, But, besides this exception, it may not be amiss to remark their on this head, that the principle of the priority of impres- composi- sions to ..."

4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The practical effort to adjust one's activities to the world leads to certain systems of ideas. Thus, the child always looks for the causes of the ..."

5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER IV Why the Americans Have Never Been so Eager as the French for General ideas in Political Matters I OBSERVED in the last chapter, ..."

6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER IV Why the Americans Have Never Been so Eager as the French for General ideas in Political Matters I OBSERVED in the last chapter, ..."

7. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"It is this that makes th several kinds of wit pleasant, which con sists, as Ï have formerly shown, in th affinity of ideas: and we may add, it is thi also ..."

8. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1878)
"It follows that all transcendental ideas arrange themselves in three classes ... What modi of the pure conceptions of reason these transcendental ideas are, ..."

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