When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

Children, conditioned by this mistaken notion, have feared stepmothers, while adults, by their antagonistic attitudes, have made the role of the substitute parents a difficult one.

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.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

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.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

Alms are the fruits of a moral notion of the gift and of fortune on the one hand,

This is the notion that particular cultures should not be judged by one culture's values or viewpoints, but that all cultures should be viewed as relative to each other.

Literary critics Barthes and Foucault suggest that readers should not rely on or look for the notion of one overarching voice when interpreting a written work, because of the complications inherent with a writer's title of " author.

There is thus, on the one hand, the notion of completeness of a deductive system and on the other hand that of completeness of a set of non-logical axioms.

Specifically, in one of his last works, De scientia divina, he concludes that the idea of plurality itself is strictly temporal, a human notion.

When the Banach algebra A is the algebra L ( X ) of bounded linear operators on a complex Banach space X ( e. g., the algebra of square matrices ), the notion of the spectrum in A coincides with the usual one in the operator theory.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

Chinese historians living in later periods were accustomed to the notion of one dynasty succeeding another, but the actual political situation in early China is known to have been much more complicated.

It was this notion of compactness that became the dominant one, because it was not only a stronger property, but it could be formulated in a more general setting with a minimum of additional technical machinery, as it relied only on the structure of the open sets in a space.

In order theory, especially in domain theory, one considers a notion of continuity known as Scott continuity.

The Chinese had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood, which were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant interaction and flux with one another, rather than the Western notion of different kinds of material.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

The Council of Chalcedon issued the ' Chalcedonian Definition ,' which repudiated the notion of a single nature in Christ, and defined that he has two natures in one person and hypostasis ; it also insisted on the completeness of his two natures: Godhead and manhood.

The notion of legal transplants was coined by Alan Watson, one of the world's renowned legal scholars specializing in comparative law.

Judaism also does not have a notion of hell as a place ruled by Satan since God's dominion is total and Satan is only one of God's angels.

Some consider literary theory merely an aesthetic concern, as articulated, for example, in Joseph Addison's notion of a critic as one who helps understand and interpret literary works: " A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellences than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The equations are one way of looking at the condition on a function to be differentiable in the sense of complex analysis: in other words they encapsulate the notion of function of a complex variable by means of conventional differential calculus.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

Fundamental to the concept of public service ethics is the notion that decisions and actions are based on what best serves the public's interests, as opposed to the official's personal interests ( including financial interests ) or self-serving political interests.

Perhaps the best ordinary notion that approximates moral intuition would be the idea of a conscience.

Thompson based his style on William Faulkner's notion that " fiction is often the best fact.

It is perhaps best understood in relation to the notion of the ' habitus ' and ' field ', which describes the relationship between individual agents and the contextual environment.

While this notion was not entirely new, Simon is best known for its origination.

It is justified by the notion that there exist some questions best resolved through the political process, voters approving or correcting the challenged action by voting for or against those involved in the decision.

The smallest constant is sometimes called the ( best ) Lipschitz constant ; however in most cases the latter notion is less relevant.

This contributes to the notion of top rally drivers as some of the best car control experts in the world.

For the same reason the notion of " Aztec civilization " is best understood as a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization.

As harmonics are universal to all physical sounds, the notion of authenticity is best understood in terms of musical quality.

To Be or Not To Be, now regarded as one of the best films of Lubitsch's, Benny's and Lombard's careers, was initially not well received by the public, many of whom could not understand the notion of making fun out of such a real threat as the Nazis.

Although some imperialists were trying to be sincere with the notion of humanitarianism, their choices might not have been best for the areas they were conquering and the natives living there.

In his Introduction to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defines idea as " that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it.

He added, " the notion that the public would accept Stéphane Dion as prime minister, after having resoundingly rejected that possibility a few weeks earlier, was delusional at best [...] Mr. Dion had seemed to accept responsibility for the defeat ( although somewhat reluctantly ), and should have left his post immediately .".

This certainly is not the best time to make any hasty judgment on this contention, but considering the very nature of ' knowledge ' itself, added to the fact that it is the thrust of this new form of economy, there certainly is a clear way forward for this notion, though the particulars ( i. e. the quantum of the revolutionary approach and its applicability and commercial value ), remain in the speculative realm, as of now.

James McDonald Vicary ( April 30, 1915 – November 7, 1977 ) was a market researcher best known for pioneering the notion of subliminal advertising in 1957.

Chalmers is best known for his formulation of the notion of a hard problem of consciousness in both his book and in the paper " Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness " ( originally published in The Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1995 ).

The idea, along with the notion that the players chosen for the two All-Star teams should be the best at the time of the game rather than the best of the players from the season before, quickly gained popularity, although the Cup champions reserved the right to host the 22nd All-Star Game.

At the end of the episode, Kyle and Stan conclude big corporations are good due to the services they provide people, and uphold the notion that the businesses providing the best product deserve to succeed in the marketplace and grow to become larger.

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.

Platt was known as an embodiment of the " HP Way ", a management philosophy developed by company founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, that " built on respect for every individual and on the notion that people want to do their best -- and will, if given the right direction ".