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Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 4 facts
quoteDavid Hume defines ideas as the “copies” of “impressions,” where impressions are “vivid” and “lively” as received directly from sense experience, while ideas are mental copies of inward or outward impressions that are “faint” or “feeble.”
claimGeorge Berkeley, an Anglo-Irish empiricist philosopher, held the view of idealism, which asserts that only minds and their ideas exist, and that sensations are counted as ideas.
claimThe presence of general concepts in the human mind suggests that there is not always a one-to-one relation between ideas and corresponding sense impressions, as seen when forming a general concept of the color blue from various instances of blue.
claimDavid Hume argues that where there are no impressions, there can be no ideas, using the example that a blind man can have no notion of color.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 3 facts
claimGeorge Berkeley argues that all that fundamentally exists are mental subjects and their ideas, where 'ideas' refers to mental states in general, including perceptions and thoughts.
claimSubjective idealism addresses unity arguments against physicalism by positing subjects as mental substances in addition to experiences or ideas.
claimYetter-Chappell (2017) provides an exception to the contemporary idealist view that God is the source of ideas and the explanation for regularities in perception.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 2 facts
claimDavid Hume claimed the mind is nothing but a 'bundle' or 'heap' of impressions and ideas, which are particular mental states or events without an owner.
referenceGeorge Berkeley distinguished between ideas and notions, defining ideas as objects of mental acts that capture their subjects transparently by way of image or likeness.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimRené Descartes and John Locke lumped sensory and intellectual contents of inner experience together, creating the modern use of the term 'idea' as an inner representation before the mind's eye, which made epistemology the central question of modern philosophy.
What Role Does Language Play in Self-Identity? → Question lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com Mar 24, 2025 1 fact
claimLanguage is a system of communication and a shared code that allows individuals to exchange thoughts, ideas, and emotions.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimThe cognitive niche is defined as a social and cultural niche where humans adapt through skills, values, ideas, and social interactions acquired from others in culturally scaffolded environments.
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 1 fact
claimThe first-person perspective of a mental event is defined as the experience of sensory input, a memory, an idea, an emotion, a mood, or a continuous temporal sequence of happenings.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimJohn Stuart Mill proposed an early model of mental emergence in 1865, suggesting that combinations of ideas might produce resultants that exceed the properties of their constituent mental parts.
Understanding epistemology and its key approaches in research cefcambodia.com Jan 21, 2023 1 fact
claimFrom an epistemological perspective, belief is defined as a person's mental representation of an attitude toward ideas or concepts, regardless of whether they are true or false.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveIn the epistemology of perception, indirect realists argue that the connection between the perceiver and the perceived object is indirect, involving mental entities like ideas or sense data that mediate between the perceiver and the external world.