5.9 The definition and meaning of the words "idea", "thought" and  (Page 2/2)

There are many types of relationships that can be formed in a sentence or an idea, basically every type of relationship that is possible in life can be described and contained in a sentence. A bad relationship can be described in a sentence, "This happened and it was bad" that is describing a bad relationship. It is saying that what happened was bad, so there is a bad relationship in the sentence. The relationship between what happened and your feelings about it. There is implied there that you feel bad about it. If something bad happened, it makes sense that you are going to feel bad about it. That would be a more subtle level of detail and meaning involved. On one hand it is obvious that if something bad happens you feel bad about it, on the other hand it could be a very complex thing that is hard to figure out the meaning of. That is what sentences, ideas and thoughts are like, they are very simple on the surface sometimes, but could be vey complicated in the details frequently.

1. is, are, was, or will be doing* (this is the relationship between a subject and a verb, the subject is doing the verb) so the relationship between I and run in the sentence “I run” is that you “are doing” the running.

There can be one part of a sentence or idea that is more important than another part, or only one part that has a deeper meaning.

Various parts of each idea relate to other ideas or different parts of that one idea itself in various ways. They are connected or not connected (independent) to various degrees.

In fact, you could spend a lot of time thinking about one idea, sentence or thought and break it down into all its parts, its obvious surface meaning and its more subtle meaning. The more subtle meaning could involve deep unconscious factors.

So if you are reading a sentence, or thinking about an idea and don't understand all of its parts, just isolate the part that you don't understand and think more about it. Another question to ponder is - is it a whole idea if you only don't understand the entire thing? You could read a sentence but does that mean that the sentence becomes a single idea in your head?

If a sentence has multiple parts and is very complicated, do you think about it in your mind as a single simple thing, do you summarize it to yourself to achieve faster recall? Say you had to remember a paragraph, even if you just read the paragraph there are all those parts you have to remember, in your mind you probably automatically summarize it or if not that maybe you automatically remember just a single part of it because that is what you were focusing on.

If you were taking a test and had to answer questions on the paragraph you would probably try to summarize the paragraph in your mind so that you could remember more of it. In fact, in order to understand the gist of what someone is saying you have to put all of the information together to understand the complete message. When someone is saying something there could be a few main things they are saying that you could understand, you don't have to remember every little detail they said most of the time.

It is obvious that sentences and paragraphs have multiple parts and each part their own meaning that might be more or less independent than the other parts. All the parts might contribute to one main idea or several main ideas. One person could have trouble recalling or understanding certain types of ideas. So it might not be that someone has a problem reading complex sentences, it could be that they have a problem understanding complicated ideas. Maybe they understand the ideas if they are spoken to them. What is the exact difference between their verbal learning and their ability to read the same material? That is something to think about that could help deceipher someones problem. It could be a way of isolating if the problem has to do with reading the words or a probelm with understanding the ideas.

This is a link to my connexions article titled "Emotions and Feelings and the Difference Between them" cnx.org/content/m14334/