There is a haunting resemblance between the notion of cause in Copernicus and in Freud.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

Hence, the only defensible procedure is to repress any and every notion, unless it gives evidence that it is perfectly safe.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

The notion of `` inspiration '' is somehow cognate to this feeling.

The Aristotelian notion of catharsis, the purging of emotion, is a persistent and viable one.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

This is given some expression in Beardsley's notion of harmony and the resolution of indecision.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

That notion is fantastically wrong-headed from several points of view.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

It is a notion which contains a gratuitous insult, implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move unless they are manipulated.

They would like to convey the notion something is being done, even though it is something they know to be ineffectual.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

In Greek, for example, the imperfective sometimes adds the notion of " try to do something " ( the so-called conative imperfect ); hence the same verb, in the imperfective ( present or imperfect ) and aorist, respectively, is used to convey look and see, search and find, listen and hear.

Though the Napoleonic code was among the first government acts of modern times to introduce the notion of absolute ownership into statute, protection of personal property rights was present in medieval Islamic law and jurisprudence, and in more feudalist forms in the common law courts of medieval and early modern England.

The notion of simultaneity depends on the frame of reference ( see relativity of simultaneity ), so switching between frames requires an adjustment in the definition of the present.

Present-day common use, however, often restricts the notion to the present part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In Du " Cubisme " Metzinger and Gleizes explicitly related the sense of time to multiple perspective, giving symbolic expression to the notion of ‘ duration ’ proposed by the philosopher Henri Bergson according to which life is subjectively experienced as a continuum, with the past flowing into the present and the present merging into the future.

Léger ’ s The Wedding, also shown at the Salon des Indépendants in 1912, gave form to the notion of simultaneity by presenting different motifs as occurring within a single temporal frame, where responses to the past and present interpenetrate with collective force.

This solution is somewhat unsatisfactory, given that a judge may not always be present, and that " defensive play " is a subjective notion.

Historically, the constraint of dominant concern has been the metaphysical constraint of determinism, which stated most simply is the notion that the present dictates the future entirely, that every occurrence results from prior events.

Logical determinism or Determinateness is the notion that all propositions, whether about the past, present, or future, are either true or false.

The view that working for wages is akin to slavery was already present in the ancient world, beginning with the notion of prostitution as temporary slavery.

This helps you differentiate one thing from another by the experience of moving around it, seeing new aspects of it ( often referred to as making the absent present and the present absent ), and still retaining the notion that this is the same thing that you saw other aspects of just a moment ago ( it is identical ).

This goal-oriented, ' teleological ' notion of the ' historical process as a whole ' is present in a variety of 20th century authors, although its prominence declined drastically after the Second World War.

At present it is maintained by a considerable number-of distinguished naturalists, such as Blumenbach, Cuvier, Bory de St. Vincent, R. Brown, & c. " The notion or spontaneous generation ," says Bory, " is at first revolting to a rational mind, but it is, notwithstanding, demonstrable by the microscope.

Smithson became particularly interested in the notion of deformities within the spectrum of anti-aesthetic dynamic relationships which he saw present in the Picturesque landscape.

Moreover both the passages that this etymology requires present difficulties, particularly as it seems Consus cannot be etymologically related to adjective consivius or conseuius, found in Ops Consivia and thence the implied notion of sowing.

Further to this notion, the belief is that the energy is " intelligent ", meaning that the Reiki knows where to heal, even if a practitioner's hands are not present in the specific area.

The Lense – Thirring effect certainly satisfies the very basic and broad notion that " matter there influences inertia here " The plane of the pendulum would not be dragged around if the shell of matter were not present, or if it were not spinning.

" This notion is part of the People's Republic of China's zhonghua minzu ideology, which conceives that China is a multi-ethnic nation, both historically and in the present, consisting of 56 ethnic minorities.

Because they believed that God was present in all living creatures, the Ranters ' adherence to antinomianism allowed them to reject the very notion of obedience, thus making them a great threat to the stability of the government.

In the process he dismisses the notion that " words are essentially proper names ", asking "... why, if ' one identical ' word is used, must there be ' one identical object ' present which it denotes ".

Then though Gettier's cases stipulate that Smith has a certain belief and that his belief is true, it seems that in order to propose ( 1 ), one must argue that Gettier, ( or, that is, the writer responsible for the particular form of words on this present occasion known as case ( 1 ), and who makes assertion's about Smith's " putative " beliefs ), goes wrong because he has the wrong notion of justification.

For example, he propagates the incorrect Galenic notion that a rete mirabile (" miraculous network ") of blood vessels exists at the base of the human brain when it is in fact only present in ungulates.

The White Goddess has been seen as a poetic work where Graves gives his notion of man's subjection to women in love an " anthropological grandeur " and further mythologises all women in general ( and several of Graves's lovers in specific ) into a three-faced moon goddess model.

Courtly love and the notion of domnei were often the subjects of troubadours, and could be typically found in artistic endeavors such as lyrical narratives and poetic prose of the time.

" Here de Man attempts to undercut the notion of the poetic work as a unified, atemporal icon, a self-possessed repository of meaning freed from the intentionalist and affective fallacies.

Dennis had fallen out with Addison in April 1711, over an essay that contained a good-humoured rejection of the notion of poetic justice in The Spectator, No. 40.

To exclude that example and some other obvious counterexamples, such as poetic quality, Quine introduces the notion of cognitive synonymy.

Although many people stress the notion of spontaneity in Romantic poetry, the movement was still greatly concerned with the pain of composition, of translating these emotive responses into poetic form.

Modernist poetry is a mode of writing characterised by technical innovation in the mode of versification ( sometimes referred to as free verse ) and by the dislocation of the ' I ' of the poet as a means of subverting the notion of an unproblematic poetic ' self ' directly addressing an equally unproblematic ideal reader or audience.

The notion of soul as imaginative possibility, in relation to the archai or root metaphors, is what Hillman has termed the “ poetic basis of mind .”