Philosophical concept
Simple and complex ideas
Simple ideas are received rather than fabricated by the mind; complex ideas result from its operations of combining, comparing, and abstracting.
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Simple ideas are received rather than fabricated by the mind; complex ideas result from its operations of combining, comparing, and abstracting.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,114 passages across 1 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 1,114 passages