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Philosophical concept

Impressions and assent

For Epictetus, the mind assents to what appears true; when faced with a harsh impression, it can examine it before following it.

Works
289
Passages
4,260
Thinkers
46
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

For Epictetus, the mind assents to what appears true; when faced with a harsh impression, it can examine it before following it.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 4,260 passages across 289 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: impression, assent, idée, idee, φαντασ, συγκαταθε

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 100 passages
  14. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  15. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  17. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  25. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  28. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages