the species of representation which gives rise to metaphysical beliefs Ideas are special concepts which arise out of our knowledge of the empirical world, yet seem to point beyond nature to some transcendent realm The three most important metaphysical ideas are God, freedom and immortality
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for Plato, the unchanging independently existing bases of the perceived world and thought about the world, and in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, the vehicles of sensory representation of external objects and of thought Locke and Leibniz initiated disputes whether ideas could be innate, in us independent of sensory experience Berkeley rejected Locke's distinction between the ideas of primary qualities (which resemble the qualities that produce them) and the ideas of secondary qualities (which are produced by qualities that they do not resemble) Hume argued that ideas originated in impressions, but still retained sensory and intellectual functions for ideas Kant separated these functions (and used the term 'idea' for other purposes)
Something, such as a thought or concept, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity, an opinion, conviction, or principle
The Ideas are the heart of the message, the content of the piece, the main theme, together with all the details that enrich and develop that theme The ideas are strong when the message is clear, not garbled The writer chooses details that are interesting, important, and informative-often the kinds of details the reader would not normally anticipate or predict Successful writers do not tell readers things they already know; e g , "It was a sunny day, and the sky was blue, the clouds were fluffy white ..." They notice what others overlook, seek out the extraordinary, the unusual, the bits and pieces of life that others might not see