Idealism
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- The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
- An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
As an epistemological position, Idealism asserts that everything we experience is of a mental nature, or that we can only have direct, immediate knowledge of the contents of our mind, and can never directly know or experience an external object itself. Therefore, Idealism asserts that only minds and the objects of mind exist, and everything is composed of mental realities (e.g., thoughts, feelings, perceptions, ideas, or will). It is often contrasted with materialism.
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Le Palais idéal
- See Ferdinand Cheval
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