Following the general Renaissance custom, Locke defined an idea as a mental entity: "whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks".
When American Ballet Theater gets its Metropolitan Opera House season under way with "Bayadère" on Tuesday night, the audience might well feel the same way; the ballet (and a one-act version, "The Kingdom of the Shades") is danced by so many major ballet companies that it has become part of the pantheon of 19th-century works that, for many, define an idea of classical dance.
Of course, this gets to the issue of how do you define an idea as original?
The main concept at the base of the dissemination framework proposed in this paper aims at defining a new idea of virtual museum that makes possible for museums to open their archives and to interconnect in order to create a network of cultural institutions supporting open and shared culture.
"After defining a general idea for the collage I spend hours of infinite scrolling and collecting images from different corners of the Internet," Anderlon tells The Creators Project.
A concept defines a general idea of a possible item in the defined knowledge base.
The work is part of a broader research dealing with the development of a research model aimed to define a new idea of "spatial units", meant as analytical and design tools suitable to support syntheses of land-use, economic, agricultural, and landscape planning.
What the people of Arkansas are enduring today is a reminder of why approving KXL, a pipeline ten times as large and running across the Oglalla Aquifer, defines a bad idea".
Since Jewishness was defined by an idea rather than by a nationality, for instance, it stood to reason that Jews would no longer need to pray for the restoration of their lost state in the land of Israel.
Diffusion has been defined by Everett Rogers as "the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system," and an innovation is defined as "an idea, practice, or objective perceived as new by an individual, a group, or an organization"[ 17].
