Ideal Idealism Ideogram Ideologist Ideology Ideonomy Ides

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~ IDEA  id+ | NOTION  VISION  VISTA | and
^u      OPINION  BELIEF
     SCHEME  PERCEPTION  IMPRESSION
     or VISION  A MENTAL REALITY or
     IDEA IDEOLOGY                       see> IDIOT
     note IDEA and SELF ARE INTERTWINED
     med> A FULLY FUNCTIONING MATURE  HUMAN BEING
          GENERATES IDIOSYNCRATIC IDEAS
     he who lacks IDEAS is an IDIOT
     consider VISION vs VISTA            see>  REAL
     gr  IDEA  = APPEARANCE from
         IDEIN   TO SEE leads to WISE
     ukr IDEA    IDEA            WIT
         IDE     GOES            VISIT
     eng IDEAL   VISION          VIEW
     note " I SEE " and REALITY are NOT IDENTICAL
     ply> | ONLY GOD HAS PERFECT VISION but
            VISIONARIES may TRANSCEND others |
     hx> PLATO PROPOSED A FUNDAMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS VIEW
         suggesting that an " IDEA "  is an " ARCHETYPE "
     TO EMPHASIZE THAT IDEAS ARE NOT DERIVED FROM REALITY
     AND THAT REALITY IS THE FULFILLMENT OF A DIVINE IDEA
     note how in such a perspective IDEA IS PERFECT but
     its material manifestation is PARTIAL and IMPERFECT
     {is GOD or is the UNIVERSE IMPERFECT?}
     for example THE IDEA "CAT" MAY BE PERFECT BUT NO
     SPECIFIC "REAL" CAT CAN EMBODY THE SCOPE OF ALL CATS
     note how IDEA in RELIGION may be represented as
     GOD or LOGOS and considered to be the source of
     THE GENESIS OF UNIVERSE  PERCEPTIBLE OR NOT
     note how NO TWO OBJECTS CAN REPRESENT AN
              IDENTICAL IDEA BECAUSE NO TWO OBJECTS CAN
     OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME
     note how IDEOLOGY PROPOSES TRUTHS THAT ARE BEYOND
              PROOF BY SCIENCE
     HUMANS NURTURE IDEAS AND GENERATE IDEOLOGIES
     WHICH INEVITABLY ARE IMPERFECT
     RELATIVE TRUTH IS UNSETTLING WHICH MAY CALL FOR
     FAITH FORMALIZED AS IDEOLOGY  DOGMA  PARTY  or
     RELIGION   all can be used as an escape to
     DENY UNDESIRED REALITY or SCIENCE
     note "HISTORIC REVISIONISM" etc   see>  HISTORY
           a euphemism for
     ALTERING HISTORY TO FIT IDEOLOGICAL IDEAS
     note IDEALISM ASPIRES TO
          AN IMPOSSIBLE " PERFECT "
     in contrast to SCIENCE WHICH ONLY OFFERS
                    PARTIAL DISCOVERIES or
     LESSER LEVELS OF CERTAINTY AND
     NEVER CAN ELIMINATE POCKETS OF UNCERTAINTY
     note SINCE SCIENCE CAN NOT OFFER AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
          THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION DOGMA or
     DOGMATIC POLITICS AND SCIENCE IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE
     EVEN A MINUSCULE CHALLENGE TO A DOGMA     sug> USSR
     MAY COLLAPSE AN ENTIRE IDEOLOGY
     notably THOSE WHO MAY UNDERMINE
             A FAITH IN A DOGMA ARE UNWELCOMED
     REGARDLESS OF VALID SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS
     INDIVIDUALS WHO CHALLENGE DOGMATIC "IDEAS"
     ARE MOST OFTEN BRANDED AS "ENEMIES"
     or in DOGMATIC TERMS "DEMONIZED"
     note "CHURCH"  or the "PARTY"
          if in power or if having the
     STATUS of a "STATE" will often
     sug> PURGE  LIQUIDATE  GULAG OPPONENTS
     sc>  note how GENETICS and SOCIOLOGY were seen as
          a THREAT TO THE SOVIET UNION because the
     factual tenets were inconsistent with
     BOLSHEVIK DOGMAS HOLDING THAT COMMUNISM CAN
     REMEDY SOCIAL ILLS REGARDLESS OF NATURE or GENES
     note that contrariwise TO DOGMATISM
          SCIENCE MUST ACCEPT UNCERTAINTY
     SCIENCE CAN REJECT THE FALSE BUT IT CAN NOT REACH
     AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
     RELIGIONS ARE THEOCENTRIC         sug> DOGMA
     SCIENCE IS HOMOCENTRIC            sug> HUMANISM
     however under COMMUNISM HOMOCENTRIC SCIENCE WAS
     REPLACED BY A HOMOCENTRIC RELIGION  see>   MARX
     see> AIDOS  EIDOS  SCIENCE  MYTHOLOGY  RELIGION
     hx> SINCE THE RENAISSANCE  HOMOCENTRIC VISTAS
         LED TO THE STUDY OF IDEAS AND IDEALS AS
     MEASURES OF HUMANITY AND LED TO IDEOLOGIES BASED ON
     FREEDOM  DIGNITY  EQUALITY  FRATERNITY  LIBERTY etc
     SCIENCE INTRODUCED THE TESTING OF     sug> ANALYSIS
     " IDEAL or IDEALIZED IDEAS "          sug> ANATHEMA
     VIA RIGOROUS FACTUAL OBSERVATIONS     sug> EXPERIMENT
     TO SYNTHESIZE APPROXIMATIONS          sug> RELATIVITY
     ONCE SUFFICIENT CERTAINTY EMERGED     sug> PROOF
     A SCIENTIFIC THEORY BASED ON FACTS COULD EMERGE
     THUS AN IDEA COULD BE INCORPORATED FROM PHILOSOPHY
     INTO THE BODY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE as if
     SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTS IDEAS REALIZED
     WITH REASONABLE CERTAINTY or perhaps
     A MYTH MADE VISIBLE AND COMPREHENSIBLE
     as if THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IS TO FULFILL THEORIES
     THE FORMER REPRESENTS TECHNOLOGY AND THE LATER CULTURE
     A DISPROPORTION IN EITHER DIRECTION
     FUELS RELIGION AND POLITICS AND MAY BE
     AN OMEN OF SOCIAL STRESS AND DECAY    sug> USSR
     note the "IDEOLOGY" OF "SCIENTIFIC" MATERIALISM
     note how SOME IDEAS ARE A WORD or       sug> BAD
          A WORD AGGLOMERATES DIVERSE IDEAS  sug> ETHICS
     some thinkers consider that GREAT IDEAS ARE
     INTERACTIVE AND INTERDEPENDENT   sug> CULT  CULTURE
     lit+ Mortimer J ADLER [#] in "Philosopher at Large"
          MacMillan Publishing Co New York 1972
     pointed out that RELATIVELY FEW "GREAT IDEAS" HAVE
     EMERGED IN 3000 YEARS   ADLER LED A SCHOLARLY ATTEMPT
     TO PRESENT WESTERN VIEWS BY LINKING THOUSANDS OF
     TOPICS INTO 102 GREAT IDEAS [87] USING AS A FACTUAL
     BASIS PASSAGES CONTAINED IN 443 MASTERPIECES BY 74
     CLASSIC AUTHORS  from HOMER [#] to FREUD [#]
     Adler lists GREAT IDEAS starting with ANGEL  ANIMAL
     ARISTOCRACY ART and ending with WAR  WEALTH  WILL
     WISDOM  WORLD
     also consider CONSCIENCE  LIFE  JUSTICE  MYTH
          RELIGION  SOUL  IDOL  IDOLATER  IDYL
~ IDEAL   an archetype of
          id+ | THEORETICAL PERFECTION |
          id+ | MODEL | thus
     UNREAL IMAGINARY as in
     sp VISION = VISION    sug> VISIBLE   sug> DOGMA
     VISTA    SIGHT  VIEW  OUTLOOK        sug> WISDOM
     lit+ "THE FIRST THING A MAN WILL DO  sug> CREED
          FOR HIS IDEALS IS TO LIE"
            attr to Joseph SCHUMPERER [#]
~ IDEALISM  implies A DESIRE TO SEEK PERFECTION   CLASSIC
                    as in EXEMPLARY  IMPECCABLE
     see> CLASSIC   sug> CALSO
     also may imply FASTIDIOUS  or
                 sp FASTIDIAR = IRRITATE
     sp IDEALISTA  = IDEALIST          sug> FUSS
            LISTA    LIST as in AGENDA  SCHEDULE
           ALISTAR   TO MAKE READY
            LISTO    ONE WHO IS SMART or SHREWD
     eng  ENLIST     COMMIT  ENGAGE  REGISTER
     ukr    LYST     MISSIVE  LETTER
     hx> MANY MODERN SOCIAL or POLITICAL IDEALISMS
         HAVE ROOTS IN MODIFIED or VULGARIZED NOTIONS
     EXPRESSED IN GERMAN ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY WHERE
     THE NATURE OF THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN RELATION TO THE
     NATURE OF GOD IS EXPLORED AND WHICH LED TO
     PROPOSITIONS THAT IN ESSENCE  "MAN IS GOD"  as per
     KANT  HEGEL  ENGELS  see> MARX
     such ideas were further VULGARIZED AND POLITICIZED
     not only by extremists like LENIN  HITLER  MAO ZEDONG
     but also by many "DEMOCRATIC" MODERATE LEADERS
     EXPLOITING POPULIST SLOGANS  sug> PROLIFIC PROLETARIAT
     note how "MAN IS GOD" IS FOUND IN CURRENT NOTIONS OF
     JUSTICE  EQUALITARIAN  WELFARE and the scope under
     "HUMAN RIGHTS"        sug> PROGRESS   PROLIFIC
     lit+ K MARX [#] is instructive in this respect
          " I WENT ON FROM IDEALISM ...
     TO SEARCH FOR THE IDEA OF REALITY ITSELF ...
     IF PREVIOUSLY GODS DWELT ABOVE THE EARTH
     NOW THEY WERE THE CENTER OF IT"  [92]
     "THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION ENDS WITH THE PRECEPT
     THAT THE SUPREME BEING FOR MAN IS MAN ... "
     sug> for more search for entries MARX [#]
     note ORTEGA y GASSET [#] in "REBELLION OF THE MASSES"
          points out HOW IDEALISM UNDER POPULAR or
     PROLETARIAT CLAMOR CAN DETERIORATE  as found in
     DEMANDS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS or JUSTICE     sug> JUSTIFY
     or SOCIAL BENEFITS WITHOUT A            sug> WELFARE
     COMMENSURATE COMMITMENT                 sug> CULTURE
     TO THE VALUES OF THE SOCIETY THAT       sug> ETHICS
     IS TO SUSTAIN THEM                      sug> ADVOCATE
     note A TREND TO REPLACE CULTURE         sug> FAITH
          WITH POPULIST IDOLS                sug> ICON
     eg MAO ZETUNG  CHE GUEVARA  EVITA       sug> SAINT
        or A PRONENESS TO DEIFY              sug> LIABILITY
     ACTORS  SPORTSMEN or HOODLUMS           sug> HOOLIGAN
     med> note PSEUDO MEDICAL EUPHEMISMS     sug> EUPHONIA
          in a trend to replace              sug> REVOLTING
     SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE WITH                sug> CONSCIENCE
     LAY HEALERS  HOLISTIC REMEDIES or       sug> MAGIC
     TRADITIONAL or FAITH HEALING            sug> VOODOO
     "TRADITIONAL" THERAPIES HAVE BEEN LEGITIMIZED AS
     "MEDICAL" SERVICES BECAUSE OF POPULAR DEMANDS
     WITHOUT EVIDENCE THAT SUCH ARE EFFICACIOUS or SAFE
     in effect the implications are that
     SCIENTIFIC THERAPIES MUST BE REGULATED BY LAW
     WHILE "FAITH" or CREED HEALING IS
     TO REMAIN ABOVE THE LAW
     one factor in such trends is COMMERCIAL GREED
     as manifest by an explosive growth of "HEALTH" stores
     a phenomenon PROMOTED or PROPAGATED by the GENERATION
     of TRANSIENT IDEAS FADS or VOGUES by sectors of the
            "POPULAR MEDIA INDUSTRY"             sug> PROPAGANDA
~ IDEOGRAM    PHONETIC SYSTEM to denote IDENTICAL SOUNDS
~ IDEOLOGIST  COMPILER OF IDEAS FOR AN IDEOLOGY
~ IDEOLOGY    id+ | SET OF IDEAS |
              implies an effort for CONSISTENCY
              lit+ " PRISON TRANSFORMED ME
                     IT TRANSFORMED ME FROM AN
                     IDEOLOGIST INTO A HUMANIST "
              attr to M DJILAS [#]  see> COMMUNIST
~ IDEONOMY    see> WORD
              neologism or new label or word to denote
     SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE in a see> "WORD"
     in this regard much has been written
     lit+ Mortimer ADLER [#] wrote books and produced
          a SYNTOPICON [87] presenting ESSAYS DEFINING
     CARDINAL IDEAS BASED ON CLASSIC LITERARY WORKS
     THE READER IS OFFERED ORIGINAL SOURCES IN FULL
     THE CONCEPT OF IDEONOMY WAS APPARENTLY COINED BY
     Patrick GUNCKEL [#] who proposes that an IDEONOMIST
     IS A SCHOLAR SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN LANGUAGE
     note AS NEW WORDS ALTER THEIR MEANING
          OLDER MEANINGS REMAIN SUBMERGED
     NEW WORDS OR MEANINGS ALSO ALTER THOSE OF OTHER WORDS
     SUCH EVOLUTION IS QUALITATIVELY AND QUANTITATIVELY
     DIFFERENT IN DIVERSE LANGUAGES    sug> POLYGLOT
     ply> | WORDS and GENES are ideas  sug> DIALECT
            MUTATION RATES REFLECT     sug> PARLANCE
            GENETIC STABILITY and      sug> SEMANTICS
            ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES |  sug> ETIOLOGY
~ IDES  id+ | ADVERSITY |
        THE UNLUCKY 13th
        RELATED TO THE MURDER OF JULIUS CESAR or CAESAR
  hx> IN ANCIENT ROMAN CALENDAR
      IDES WAS THE 13th DAY OF EVERY MONTH
  BUT WITH SEVERAL EXCEPTIONS   CAESAR WAS MURDERED MARCH 15th