Ideapedia Database

Ideas are hard to divide into neatly defined categories because they are often both interconnected like a network and classified under hierarchies.

Instinctual Ideas

There are a number of ideas that arise from instinctual impulses. Although these drives are innate rather than learned, they still operate as ideas in that they interact with other ideas along similar lines.

Learned Ideas

Humans excel beyond all other animals at learning new ideas and behaviors. The human facility for sharing and imitating learned ideas has spawned the cultural and technological wonders of modern civilization as well as the horrors of war and tyrannical ideologies like fascism.