Citations:ideæ

English citations of ideæ

Noun: antiquated and uncommon plural of idea

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• 1838 C.E., Heinrich Ritter and Alexander James William Morrison, The History of Ancient Philosophy, D. A. Talboys; volume II, chapter III, pages 292–293:

  Plato, therefore, does not hesitate to describe the sensible as a compound of the identical which indicates the Ideæ, and of the other, or the non-being;¹⁶³ and as he considers the changeable to be the object‐matter of vague opinion, he places it intermediate between ignorance and knowledge, so that it thus appears to be a something which at the same time is and is not.

• 1842 C.E., The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; volume I, page #30:

  “ Plato laid it down that there were certain ideæ, that is, species incorporeal, and substances permanent and in themselves distinct from other things in their nature, as for instance Man ; and that by their participation in these ideæ, other things became men or animals.”

• 1914 C.E., Wilhelm Windelband, A History of Philosophy, The Macmillan Company; part III, chapter 2, § 25, page #326:

  Things are other than our ideas (ideæ) of them.