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Abstract idea
(gcide) | Idea \I*de"a\, n.; pl. Ideas. [L. idea, Gr. ?, fr. ? to see;
akin to E. wit: cf. F. id['e]e. See Wit.]
1. The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object,
that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any
object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
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Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
--Fairfax.
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Being the right idea of your father
Both in your form and nobleness of mind. --Shak.
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This representation or likeness of the object being
transmitted from thence [the senses] to the
imagination, and lodged there for the view and
observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and
properly called its idea. --P. Browne.
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2. A general notion, or a conception formed by
generalization.
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Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
--L. Caroll.
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3. Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of,
by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real
object that is conceived or thought of.
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Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the
immediate object of perception, thought, or
undersanding, that I call idea. --Locke.
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4. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or
controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of
development.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and
that is a wrong one. --Johnson.
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What is now "idea" for us? How infinite the fall of
this word, since the time where Milton sang of the
Creator contemplating his newly-created world,
"how it showed . . .
Answering his great idea,"
to its present use, when this person "has an idea
that the train has started," and the other "had no
idea that the dinner would be so bad!" --Trench.
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5. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
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I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with
an idea of undertaking while there the translation
of the work. --W. Irving.
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6. A rational conception; the complete conception of an
object when thought of in all its essential elements or
constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent
attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
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7. A fiction object or picture created by the imagination;
the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a
standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns
of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have
excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the
Deity.
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Thence to behold this new-created world,
The addition of his empire, how it showed
In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
Answering his great idea. --Milton.
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Note: "In England, Locke may be said to have been the first
who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality.
When, in common language, employed by Milton and
Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney,
Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is
Platonic." --Sir W. Hamilton.
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Abstract idea, Association of ideas, etc. See under
Abstract, Association, etc.
Syn: Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image;
perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation;
judgment; consideration; view; design; intention;
purpose; plan; model; pattern.
Usage: There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to
such abusive treatment as is the word idea, in the
very general and indiscriminative way in which it is
employed, as it is used variously to signify almost
any act, state, or content of thought.
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An abstract idea
(gcide) | Abstract \Ab"stract`\ (#; 277), a. [L. abstractus, p. p. of
abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw.
See Trace.]
1. Withdraw; separate. [Obs.]
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The more abstract . . . we are from the body.
--Norris.
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2. Considered apart from any application to a particular
object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only;
as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal;
abstruse; difficult.
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3. (Logic)
(a) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed
apart from the other properties which constitute it;
-- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract
word. --J. S. Mill.
(b) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction;
general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an
abstract or general name. --Locke.
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A concrete name is a name which stands for a
thing; an abstract name which stands for an
attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in
more modern times, which, if not introduced by
Locke, has gained currency from his example, of
applying the expression "abstract name" to all
names which are the result of abstraction and
generalization, and consequently to all general
names, instead of confining it to the names of
attributes. --J. S. Mill.
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4. Abstracted; absent in mind. "Abstract, as in a trance."
--Milton.
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An abstract idea (Metaph.), an idea separated from a
complex object, or from other ideas which naturally
accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated
apart from its color or figure.
Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as
beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object
in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of
orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a
combination of similar qualities.
Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without application
to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as
6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete.
Abstract mathematics or Pure mathematics. See
Mathematics.
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