A Theory of Idea?

[Nitesh Rachit]

Ideas?
They are, whether good or bad, are like the seeds in the human mind. We can never ascribe the seeds to good or bad fruition until they sprouts into a sapling; in the same way a minute or minutest idea is also fruitful. It will resolutely turn into the action. An idea resides in the mind and thrives on as though a yellow mass is encompassed by a white spherical layer and grows up. The idea like a young bird comes out from your mind, it matters whether it a sweet cuckoo to mollify or a crow to agitate the beings.
-Nitesh Rachit Sharma

[BookBeauty]

An excellent metaphor for ideas. It's the seed before the germination and subsequent growth. Many ideas germinate, take root, but never become more than sprouts before dying from lack of attention. I know much of this. :D

I am unsure of whether this post belongs in this particular section or not. :D

[Nitesh Rachit]

I would like to have your further integrated views over the thread dear. Let me get you and then will attack with my next view. Hails till then.

[Nitesh Rachit]

Crank—a man with a new idea until it succeeds.
-Mark Twain
And with this, Me, Nitesh Rachit would like to say a little more,

"Great ideas are not charitable".

[cafolini]

Ideas that can be expressed in experiments survive. Those that can only be expressed philosophically are left behind. The process of idealization and reaproximation by reidealization is a genuine scientific endeavor. Thus all experiments approach development and optimization.

[russellb]

Ideas that can be expressed in experiments survive. Those that can only be expressed philosophically are left behind. The process of idealization and reaproximation by reidealization is a genuine scientific endeavor. Thus all experiments approach development and optimization.

Socrates wanted to understand the nature of virtue. That idea and that philosophical inquiry are still with us. Does it make sense to think of moral philosophy in (empirical) experimental terms? I would say not. We may of course test ideas according to the dictates of rationality. That is the very essence of the philosophic method.