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What  is a good translation  of    "se faire une idée"   the original sentence was written    by  Condillac:

"[ces idées]     que nous nous sommes faites  nous mêmes"

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I'd try "come up with an idea".

In context, "These ideas we come up with on our own."
It depends a bit on the context. In the right context, se faire des idées can mean something like "to give oneself false hopes", "to start imagining things"

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