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PHILOSOPHY The view that ideas exist in a realm separate or distinct from Real Life is a venerable theme in Philosophy . This view holds that we only discover ideas in the same way that we discover the real world. In Philosophy , the term "idea" is common to all Language s and periods, but there is scarcely any term which has been used with so many different shades of meaning. Plato
John Locke
David Hume
Wilhelm Wundt
G. F. Stout and J. M. Baldwin
It should be observed that an idea, in the narrower and generally accepted sense of a mental reproduction, is frequently composite. That is, as in the example given above of the idea of chair, a great many objects, differing materially in detail, all call a single idea. When a man, for example, has obtained an idea of chairs in general by comparison with which he can say "This is a chair, that is a stool", he has what is known as an "abstract idea" distinct from the reproduction in his mind of any particular chair (see Abstraction ). Furthermore a complex idea may not have any corresponding physical object, though its particular constituent elements may severally be the reproductions of actual perceptions. Thus the idea of a Centaur is a complex mental picture composed of the ideas of Man and Horse , that of a Mermaid of a Woman and a Fish . IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Diffusion studies explore the spread of ideas from culture to culture. Some anthropological theories hold that all cultures imitate ideas from one or a few original cultures, the Adam of the Bible or several cultural circles that overlap. Evolutionary diffusion theory holds that cultures are influenced by one another, but that similar ideas can be developed in isolation. In mid-20th century, social scientists began to study how and why ideas spread from one person or culture to another. Everett Rogers pioneered Diffusion Of Innovations studies, using research to prove factors in adoption and profiles of adopters of ideas. IDEAS AS PROPERTY See Also: intellectual property See Also: idea-expression divide In some cases the manner in which certain ideas are expressed can be granted Legal protection by the State as Intellectual Property . Intellectual property laws generally do not give any protection to the actual idea which forms the basis of the intellectual property. Such laws do not bestow the legal status of Property upon ideas per se. Instead, it is the fundamental expression of the idea which is protected by a variety of different intellectual property laws. The relevant law depends on the subject matter, such as Copyright in the case of an original literary work, a Patent grant in the case of an Invention , a registered Trademark in the case of a brand name, or registered Industrial Design Rights in the case of the physical appearance of certain objects. Patent law protects a new idea that has a functional manifestation as invention or Know-how , copyright law protects the Expression of ideas like books, movies, videodiscs, and datastreams, while other laws protect industrial Design s and Integrated Circuit patterns. Those types of law are intended to protect the exploitation of the expression of the ideas of creators and Author s for a limited period of time in a form of Monopoly . COLLOQUIAL USES The Colloquial expression "I have no idea" may be used in any situation where a person is Ignorant of something or chooses not to reveal what they know. SEE ALSO
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