Single Idea 23652

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought]

Full Idea

No man can consider a thing which he does not conceive.

Gist of Idea

We must first conceive things before we can consider them

Source

Thomas Reid (Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction [1785], 6)

Book Reference

Reid,Thomas: 'Inquiry and Essays', ed/tr. Beanblossom /K.Lehrer [Hackett 1983], p.247


A Reaction

This seems to imply concepts, but we should not take this to be linguistic, since animals obviously consider things and make judgements.