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Association of ideas
Association As*so`ci*a"tion (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. ``Some . . . bond of association.' --Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. --Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. --Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? --Coleridge. 3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. --Porter.
Innate ideas
Innate In"nate, a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native.] 1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence. 2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. --South. Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters. --Fleming (Origen). If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. --Locke. 3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. --Gray. Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

Meaning of Ideas from wikipedia

- In philosophy and in common usage, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object...
- Look up ideas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. IDEAS may stand for: I-DEAS (Integrated Design and Engineering Analysis Software), a computer-aided...
- Nuevas Ideas (English: New Ideas; abbreviated N or NI) is the current ruling political party of El Salvador. The party was founded on 25 October 2017...
- marketplace of ideas is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market. The marketplace of ideas holds that...
- On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 30. Jonathan Barnes, Review of Fine's 1993 On Ideas in...
- condemnation of ideas of reference is frequently expressed by anti-psychiatrists, on the grounds, for example, that "the patient's ideas of reference and...
- The Idea of You is a 2024 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jennifer Westfeldt, based...
- LSE IDEAS is a foreign policy think tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science. IDEAS was founded as a think tank for Diplomacy and...
- relations are often logical connections that obtain between two concepts or ideas, like "entailment." The fact that all men are mortal and that Socrates is...
- Look up ideas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ideas usually refer to a person's thoughts or a developed concepts. Ideas may also refer to: I-DEAS...