Bright flash (4)

I believe the answer is:

idea

(Other definitions for idea that I've seen before include "Plato's Form is" , "Notion, belief" , "Something imagined in the mind" , "Content of cognition" , "It comes to mind" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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