# Simple and complex ideas

- Id: `simple_and_complex_ideas`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/simple-and-complex-ideas/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `7a389d8688d8b51fc540df104016cfc1433bccd999f2cf02492060c9ab8ab84f`

## Summary

Simple ideas are received rather than fabricated by the mind; complex ideas result from its operations of combining, comparing, and abstracting.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S3",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S2",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S1"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 1114,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    }
]
```