- amplification(process of developing simple thoughts into complicated ones)
- Making something bigger, stronger, or more intense—in this case, taking a basic experience and building it up into a more complex idea.
- complex ideas(contrasted with simple, basic thoughts)
- Thoughts or concepts made up of multiple parts or elements combined together, rather than single, simple ideas.
- formal reality(Used in Descartes' causal principle in Meditation III)
- The degree of reality a thing possesses in itself, as an actually existing entity
- genetic account(explaining the origin or development of ideas)
- An explanation of how something came to be or how it developed over time, tracing its origins and growth.
- inference(Nyāya epistemology)
- A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
- objective reality(Contrasted with formal reality in Descartes' causal principle in Meditation III)
- The degree of reality belonging to the object or content represented by an idea, as it exists within the idea
- psychological(as used in ethics)
- Related to the mind, emotions, or individual desires—what a person actually wants or feels inside.
- reflection(Locke's epistemology; distinguished from sensation as a second source of ideas)
- An introspective kind of perceptual experience through which humans gain ideas of their own nature and faculties