An idea is a being incorporeal1, not subsisting2 by itself, but gives figure unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of its phenomena3.
Socrates and Plato conjecture4 that these ideas are beings separate from matter, subsisting in the understanding and imagination of the deity5, that is, of mind.
Aristotle accepted forms and ideas; but he doth not believe them separated from matter, or patterns of the things God has made.
Those Stoics6, that are of the school of Zeno, profess7 that ideas are nothing else but the conceptions of our own mind.

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incorporeal
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adj.非物质的,精神的 | |
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v.(靠很少的钱或食物)维持生活,生存下去( subsist的现在分词 ) | |
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phenomena
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conjecture
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deity
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n.神,神性;被奉若神明的人(或物) | |
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stoics
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禁欲主义者,恬淡寡欲的人,不以苦乐为意的人( stoic的名词复数 ) | |
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v.声称,冒称,以...为业,正式接受入教,表明信仰 | |
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