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Updated: May 24, 2025
From a given cause an effect necessarily follows, and if there be no given cause no effect can follow. Things which have nothing in common with each other cannot be understood through one another i.e. the conception of one does not involve the conception of the other. To understand an effect implies that we understand the cause of it. A true idea is one which corresponds with its ideate.
Although body does not think, nor affect the mind's power of thinking, and mind does not control body, nor communicate to it either motion or rest or any influence from itself, yet body with all its properties is the object or ideate of mind: whatsoever body does, mind perceives; and the greater the energising power of the first, the greater the perceiving power of the second.
This dualism is the lowest stage of ontological thought. The thinker sees the problem, only to turn away from it. He surmises that there is some relation between the two; but he cannot define it, and it remains ineffectual. This was Plato's early standpoint. He established the idea as the truth of the thing, but he failed to find expression for the relation between idea and ideate.
A more intimate relation is required. The theory of ideas confronts God with a world, and leaves the relation between them unformulated and inexplicable. This criticism is of first importance for theology. Faith as well as reason demands a real relation between idea and ideate.
A false school of psychology would say that the infant's brain cannot yet ideate; but that is incorrect language. No brain can ideate or form ideas; an idea is an intellectual or mind image, not a brain image; it is an abstract and universal image, and matter cannot represent but what is concrete and individual. Only a simple and spiritual being, the rational soul, can form ideas.
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