Max Müller, who adds:—“The followers of Hume might possibly look upon the faded images of our memory as abstract ideas.
The next question is--Have the higher animals the power of analyzing their constructs and forming isolates or abstract ideas of qualities apart from the constructs of which these qualities are elements?
I would connect this almost universal tendency with the origin of abstract ideas (isolates) through language.
The directness and unconsciousness referred to above, with which in perception we make the transition from the sensation to its cause, may be illustrated by an analogous procedure in the use of abstract ideas or thinking.
He objects to Leibnitz and Locke that the former reduced everything to abstract ideas, and the latter everything to ideas of perception.
For they lack conceptions, that is, abstract ideas.
The princely scholastic Pico de Mirandula already saw that reason is the faculty of abstract ideas, and understanding the faculty of ideas of perception.
Are we obliged to proceed discursively by abstract ideas?
As this is a fact of consciousness, we know it by intuition, not by abstract ideas; it is the exercise of an activity which we feel within ourselves; it is the me which we ourselves are.
Personification is a special form of the metaphor in which life is attributed to inanimate objects or the characteristics of persons are attributed to objects, animals, or even to abstract ideas.
Sometimes inanimate objects, abstract ideas, or the lower animals are given the attributes of human beings.
Personification is a modified metaphor, assigning human attributes to objects, abstract ideas, or the lower animals.
Thus are the abstract ideas of sweetness, color, hardness, courage, beauty, etc.
The last-mentioned authority also cleverly states the idea as follows: "The products of Abstraction are abstract ideas, that is, ideas of qualities in the abstract.
As Halleck says: "The difference between an abstract idea and a concept is that a concept may consist of a bundle of abstract ideas.
And who, I pray, is it that makes these diverse species, even under one and the same name, but men that make two different abstract ideas, consisting not exactly of the same collection of qualities?
This we see in the common use of language, which permits not any two abstract words, or names of abstract ideas, to be affirmed one of another.
Axtell in his work on the Deification of Abstract Ideas at Rome (Chicago, 1907), p.
See Axtell, The Deification of Abstract Ideas in Roman Literature and Inscriptions (Chicago, 1907), p.
Add, then, to the animal soul the capacity for abstract ideas, and it would rise at once to the level of man.
In like manner, races become developed in civilization by the impact of abstract ideas.
Now these can all be accounted for by the hypothesis in which Locke and Leibnitz both agreed; namely, that while animals are capable of reasoning about facts, they are incapable of abstract ideas.
The formation and use of abstract ideas, of one kind or another, represent, par excellence, the "higher thought processes.
The factor most involved may be verbal language coherence, visual perception of form, the association of abstract ideas, etc.
On the other hand, adult intelligence is vastly superior in the comprehension and retention of a logically presented group of abstract ideas.
He will, first, fully admit that the formation of abstract ideas is but a means {92} to an end, and that this end is the enlargement of the range of our view of the connections of our experience.
May not the formation of abstract ideas, when wisely used, be merely a means of helping us toward an easier view of larger unities of fact than {91} our present sort of human consciousness could grasp except for this auxiliary device?
It can be made eternal only by tying ourselves, for a given purpose, to abstract ideas which we arbitrarily require to remain, like mathematical definitions, unchanged.
An understanding which has lost itself among abstract ideas must, in such purely abstract thinking, become eventually entirely extinct.
To give the reader a yet clearer view of the nature of abstract ideas, and the uses they are thought necessary to, I shall add one more passage out of the Essay on Human Understanding, (IV.
Pictorial symbols, which are used to suggest objects or abstract ideas.
The form which their denial took was to deny that there are such things as 'abstract ideas '.
M71) If men did not use words for ideas they would never have thought of abstract ideas.
M184) Abstract ideas only to be had amongst the learned.
Abstract ideas include a contradiction in their nature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstract ideas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
