Everything about Idea
Mental image or concept
An idea is the result of thought. Although the word is used in common usage, in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: IdeaA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Virtual communication curbs creative idea generationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: ΜένωνThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Multicarrier modulation for data transmission: an idea whose time has comeCited 2,668 times
- Go sideways: EmpiricismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
Noun The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
Noun The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
Noun An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Multicarrier modulation for data transmission: an idea whose time has come
Dichotomizing continuous predictors in multiple regression: a bad idea
A default mode of brain function: A brief history of an evolving idea
Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come
On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies
Cancer Stem Cells: An Old Idea—A Paradigm Shift
Perspective: The Stage‐Gate® Idea‐to‐Launch Process—Update, What's New, and NexGen Systems*
From Creativity to Innovation: The Social Network Drivers of the Four Phases of the Idea Journey
🆕 Influential since 2022
Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation
Revisiting the idea of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities for digital transformation
Filtered auxiliary model recursive generalized extended parameter estimation methods for Box–Jenkins systems by means of the filtering identification idea
Recursive identification methods for general stochastic systems with colored noises by using the hierarchical identification principle and the filtering identification idea
Stem Cell Therapy: From Idea to Clinical Practice
📚 Books worth reading
ΜένωνPlato · 1869
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία ΣωκράτουςPlato · 1871
ΠαρμενίδηςPlato · 1728
Die Welt als Wille und VorstellungArthur Schopenhauer · 1819
The idea of a universityJohn Henry Newman · 1873
Zur psychopathologie des alltagslebens (The psychopathology of everyday life)Sigmund Freud · 1904
Eyeless in GazaAldous Huxley · 1930
The life of Mary Baker EddySibyl Wilbur · 1908
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