This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea and we may observe that this meaning of that word is built upon a philosophical opinion for, if philosophers had not believed that there are such immediate objects of all our thoughts in the mind, they would never have used the word idea to express them.
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In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose.Thomas Reid
When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of anything, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it.
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.
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This is the original mosaic tile and marble.
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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
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