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Simple ideas, whether they are ideas of perception or ideas of reflection, may be combined or repeated to produce "compound ideas," as when the compound idea of an apple is produced by bringing together simple ideas of a certain colour, texture, odour, and figure.
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Ellington had an idea of a certain kind of jazz: tonal, atmospheric, blues-based but elegant.
The second claim is that an emotional feeling is identical to the bodily sensations that manifest it: "A feeling in essence is an idea -- an idea of the body and, even more particularly, an idea of a certain aspect of the body, its interior, in certain circumstances.
I'm never keen on the slightly treacly bitterness of dark sugar with chocolate, but I do like the idea of a certain toffee sweetness, so, as with my own chocolate cake recipe, I'm going to use soft light brown sugar instead.
Both early and contemporary pragmatists reject the idea of a certain Truth that can be discovered through logical analysis or revelation, and are more interested in knowledge gained through experiences of all sorts, while emphasizing the social context of all epistemological claims.
A patent creates a monopoly, and in the fast-moving world of software, a broad patent on the very idea of a certain form of computing makes it difficult to improve on the innovations of others.
"What I was interested in doing is deflecting this idea of a certain line of questioning or a certain representational show that is so often associated with a group show organized around identity matrixes," Sahakian declared to HuffPost.
Gjelina is a perfected idea of a certain Los Angeles, complete with relaxed outdoor seating around a fire pit, impossibly good-looking waiters, and an entire farmers market worth of perfect vegetables snatched smoking from the grill.
Today's Iran is quite different and yet this idea of a certain group of individuals who did things differently from the state's paid propagandists and the typical protesting intellectuals -- and thus shunned from both groups -- still rings true.
The name of the neighborhood stands in for the name of the industry, but it also stands in for the idea of a certain coastal, urban, celebrity-adjacent culture.
Notice if your stylist uses your hair to give you a rough idea of a certain look, such as bangs or a shorter cut.
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