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In other words, simple ideas are copies of the simple impressions. For example, I see something exciting, and that certain something moves me, and because of this impression I can later on have an idea of it. Therefore simple ideas are direct copies of simple impressions and cannot be broken into parts but are a unified whole.

Although complex impressions and complex ideas are in general a copy of the other (complex ideas are copies of complex impressions), in some unusual cases they are not so. For instance, I can imagine a place where I have never been, or in the case of a man who is color blind of the color blue, he may make up his own idea of that color based on his experience of the other colors.

The term “complex idea,” by the way, signifies something that is constituted of simple ideas. For instance, an apple that has color, taste, size, and so forth.

Source: Bruce Lee’s handwritten philosophy paper from the University of Washington, February 18, 1964. Bruce Lee Papers.

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