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 ).

It is closely connected with the notion that all kinds of violence entail negative karmic consequences.

Theoretical understanding of condensed matter physics is closely related to the notion of emergence, wherein complex assemblies of particles behave in ways dramatically different from their individual constituents.

A closely related notion is the differential of a function.

The notion of causation is closely linked to the problem of induction.

They are often closely related, and in languages such as Latin several thematic roles have an associated case, but cases are a morphological notion, while thematic roles are a semantic one.

Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").

This indifference of " things in themselves " ( closely linked with the later notion of " being-in-itself " in his Being and Nothingness ) has the effect of highlighting all the more the freedom Roquentin has to perceive and act in the world ; everywhere he looks, he finds situations imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence.

The notion of a theorem is very closely connected to its formal proof ( also called a " derivation ").

Maybe we could still make sense of the claim, " God exists ," without any clear notion of eternal existence, or maybe we could make do by understanding God's eternity by way of our closely related concept, of a potential infinity.

A closely related notion is the differential of a function.

This notion is closely related to maintaining control of the center squares in the strategic game chess.

A closely related notion of curvature comes from gauge theory in physics, where the curvature represents a field and a vector potential for the field is a quantity that is in general path-dependent: it may change if an observer moves around a loop.

In quantum mechanics the notion of operational definitions is closely related to the idea of observables, that is, definitions based upon what can be measured.

It is loosely related to the object-oriented notion of a constructor, which creates a new object given arguments, and more closely related to the constructor function of an algebraic data type system.

A closely related notion is that of antiunitary transformation, which is a bijective function

A closely related notion with geometric overtones is a quadratic space, which is a pair ( V, q ), with V a vector space over a field K, and a quadratic form on V. An example is given by the three-dimensional Euclidean space and the square of the Euclidean norm expressing the distance between a point with coordinates ( x, y, z ) and the origin:

Salisbury's passing gave James the notion of governing in person as his own chief Minister of State, with his young Scottish favourite, Robert Carr, carrying out many of Salisbury's former duties, but James's inability to attend closely to official business exposed the government to factionalism.

A claim from psychology includes the notion that hypermedia more closely models the structure of the brain, in comparison with printed text.

The idea of a complete contract is closely related to the notion of default rules, e. g. legal rules that will fill the gap in a contract in the absence of an agreed upon provision.

The number of correct significant figures is closely related to the notion of relative error ( which has the advantage of being a more accurate measure of precision, and is independent of the radix of the number system used ).

The notion is closely related to that of a representation of a Lie group.

Voltaire's Candide attacks the notion that all is for the best in this, " the best of all possible worlds ", a world closely supervised by a benevolent deity.

* The notion of CW-complex has an adaptation to smooth manifolds called a handle decomposition which is closely related to surgery theory.

Free products with amalgamation and a closely related notion of HNN extension are basic building blocks in Bass – Serre theory of groups acting on trees.