For example, the idea of the exterior world, which is given us so quickly, is a complex idea, which contains a number of ideas.
The idea of God is a complex idea, and not a simple idea.
Locke is very clear in recognizing that animals do “take in and retain together several combinations of simple ideas to make up a complex idea:” he only denies that animals “do of themselves ever compound them and make complex ideas.
The special characteristic of a memory surely is not its vividness; but that it is a complex idea, in which the idea of that which is remembered is related by co-existence with other ideas, and by antecedence with present impressions.
For a man to be undisturbed in danger, sedately to consider what is fittest to be done, and to execute it steadily, is a mixed mode, or a complex idea of an action which may exist.
Another that hath better observed, adds to shining yellow great weight: and then the sound gold, when he uses it, stands for a complex idea of a shining yellow and a very weighty substance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complex idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
