Idea

Ideas are the eternal Forms: the unchanging realities that particular things imitate and the mind ascends to know.

Ideas are not separate Forms but concepts abstracted by the intellect from sensible things.

Ideas are the living thoughts of the Divine Intellect, the eternal patterns from which all reality flows.

Ideas are the eternal rationes in the mind of God, and the human mind knows truth by divine illumination.

Ideas are formed by the intellect's abstraction from sense experience, though their eternal archetypes exist in the mind of God.

Ideas are the mind's own contents; some are innate, placed in us by God, and known more clearly than any sensible thing.

The mind has no innate ideas; all ideas come from experience, through sensation and reflection.

To be is to be perceived: ideas are all that exist, and matter apart from perception is an unintelligible fiction.

Ideas are faint copies of vivid impressions; all genuine ideas trace back to sense experience, and those that do not are meaningless.

Ideas of reason are not derived from experience but are necessary concepts that regulate thought beyond what the senses can verify.