A MEANING OF THE CONCEPT "IDEA"

There are many ways by which we can define ideas. One of them is the following: ideas are mental contents and psychical images. These are natural symbols because we can't create and change them however we want. When one is sensing darkness one can't change it for redness. Ideas have been understood also as sensations being qualities. They would be qualities of a mind. Thus ideas would occur within a person and they have shorter temporal duration than their owner. After imagining the person remains although that imagination disappeared.


The idea as the natural symbol means that it is the copy of a archetype. So the idea represents some other entity than it is. And this other represented in a person is independent of a perceiver, but not always.



For instance, memories, mental pictures, imaginations, illusions, delusions and hallucinations, impressions and sensations are ideas if defining ideas as psychical images. When Mrs. Smith is recollecting her daughter, she sees a mental image of the daughter in mind. But it is clear that this mental image is very different than the real daughter. Likewise, if Mr. Jones perceives a flying dagger being hallucination, then it implies that the dagger flies in his mind's sight. So there's not any dagger in the room. And it is a idea which doesn't represent a physical dagger. (Maybe there's not room: he is dreaming.)


As a result, a future idea doesn't represent at present an object which exists in the future. Many hope the world's peace and justice in their heart. But this idea, unfortunately, wouldn't necessarily materialize in the future. And many times our kind ideas never realize because the world doesn't go as we like. The present economical crises is a good evidence that people's hopes have collapsed: we must invent something new.


Finally, we must notice we don't perceive only one idea at a time but many. Our mind's experience is full of things such as thoughts, beliefs, feelings, desires, impressions, memories, imaginations, visions and hearings simultaneously. However, our private plurality of experience, from seeing from inside of a person to the immediate area, doesn't agree with the world of bodies outside of a mind. The world doesn't represent a mind's ideas. Yet a mind's ideas within a human organism can represent the world of bodies. But not always.

That was a bad business idea.