 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
From memory it is an easy step to what are called "ideas"-not in the Platonic sense, but in that of Locke, Berkeley and Hume, in which they are opposed to "impressions." You may be conscious of a friend either by seeing him or by "thinking" of him; and by "thought" you can be conscious of objects which cannot be seen, such as the human race, or physiology. "Thought" in the narrower sense is that form of consciousness which consists in "ideas" as opposed to impressions or mere memories.
Source: The Analysi of Mind, 1921, chapter 1.
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