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Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Thought.

In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to conscious

cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation.

Their most pragmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation.

But other mental processes like considering an idea, memory, or imagination are also often included. These processes can happen internally independent of the sensory organs, unlike perception, but when understood in the widest sense, any mental event may be understood as a form

of thinking, including perception and unconscious mental processes. In a to mental processes, but to mental

states or systems of ideas brought about by these processes.

Various theories of thinking have been proposed, some of which aim to capture the characteristic

features of thought.

Plaitinists hold that thinking consists in discerning and

inspecting platonic forms and their interrelations. It involves the ability to

discriminate between the pure platonic forms themselves

and the mere intimations found in the sensory world.

According to Aristotelianism, to think about something is to instantiate in one's mind a universal essence of the

object of thought. These universals are abstracted from sense experience and are not understood as existing in a

changeless intelligible world in contrast to platonism. Conceptualism is

closely related to Aristotelianism.

It identifies thinking with mentally evoking concepts

instead of instantiating essences.

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