...outset of the Essay, an idea is "whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks," or "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." 27 Practically the same definition of the term idea is repeated later, and on the whole predominates...

...anschaulichen Vorstellungen und Phantasiebilder versteht, also alles, ~whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking (Essay I, § 8), whatsoever the mind perceives' in itself, or is the immediate object qf perception,...

...expressions, that the term idea stands for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking: that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas: that all knowledge consists in the perception of...

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. ... I presume it will be easily granted me that there are such ideas in men's minds; every one is conscious...

...first (I, I, 8*) explains: "... I have used it [ie, idea] to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; . . ." But later (III, III, 6t), without any explicit notice of the widening of use, he writes: "......

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind...about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it. That generic use of "idea" for what the imagination, memory, or reason indifferently produce...

...expressions, that the term idea stands for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking : that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas : that all knowledge consists in the perception...

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about thinking." Essay ed AC Fraser (Oxford 1894) ' 32. 4 Hume's famous distinction occurs at the start of...

...Locke remarks on his own use of the term "idea" that it stands for "whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." He presumes that it will be easily granted that such items are to be found in the mind. The passage...

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind...about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it."2 Locke tries to reduce the vagueness by classifying ideas into groups. He distinguishes...