However others see this statement as expressing the Roman Catholic notion of ‘ semina verbi ’ (‘ seeds of the word ’), whereby there is some truth ( seeds of truth ) in pre-Christian Greek thought, but these required purification by the light of the Gospels.

He discovered, probably through empirical observation ( there was no notion of infection by germs at this time ), that wine was very effective at cleaning a wound and preventing infection.

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.

Notably, for skewed distributions, the arithmetic mean may not accord with one's notion of " middle ", and robust statistics such as the median may be a better description of central tendency.

However, the theory has been traced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to John Locke's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government ( 1689 ), that property derives from labor through the act of " mixing " one's labor with items in the common store of goods, though this has alternatively been seen as a labor theory of property.

The question concerning corporeity connects also with Merleau-Ponty's reflections on space ( l ' espace ) and the primacy of the dimension of depth ( la profondeur ) as implied in the notion of being in the world ( être au monde ; to echo Heidegger's In-der-Welt-sein ) and of one's own body ( le corps propre ).

Several cultures whose languages use writing systems other than alphabets do not share the Western notion of signatures per se: the " signing " of one's name results in a written product no different from the result of " writing " one's name in the standard way.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

In this sense, the opposite of pride is either humility or guilt ; the latter in particular being a sense of one's own failure in contrast to Augustine's notion of excellence.

Many ancient Indian philosophies advocate the notion that all matter ( and thus humans ) is subtly interconnected with not only one's immediate surroundings, but with everything in the universe.

Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world refer to them directly or have special personal significance: ' the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny '.

According to Foucault, the very notion of the criminal had became political within the confines of Political economy, the western legal system had been transformed from one of cruelty to one of repeating one's crimes over and over again, therefore producing the ' rational ' professional criminal ; criminals were punished differently ( and less dramatically, rather ironically ).

It was devised by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn to explain his notion of triolectics, his refinement on the Marxian concept of dialectics, as well as to disrupt one's everyday idea of football.

To this he contrasts the stance of the " transpersonal ecology " described by Warwick Fox: this is " centred on the notion that only the ego-involved, contracted self can imagine itself to be distinct from the natural world and that expansion of the self beyond the boundaries of the personal necessarily means that one's awareness, and ground of concern, extends to the natural world " ( page 194 ).

To this he responded with his famous notion of ' Animal Spirits ' – that they were ruled by speculative behavior influenced not only by one's own personal equation but by his or her perceptions of the speculative behavior of others ; in turn others behavior was motivated by their perceptions of others behavior, et al.

The latter one also deals, like Gerrold's novel, with the notion of being one's own parents.

In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one's full potential.

His writing is grounded in the notion that one's work ought to be rooted in and responsive to one's place.

In support of this argument he presents three main reasons: ( 1 ) individuals, according to Locke, cannot divest control over their souls to secular forces, as God does not appoint the magistrate ; ( 2 ) force cannot create the change necessary for salvation, because while it can coerce obedience, it cannot change one's beliefs ; and ( 3 ) even if coercion could persuade someone of a notion, it would not help for the salvation of the soul, because then birth would be related with salvation.

In his book titled Towards Understanding the Qur ' an, Islamic thinker and philosopher Abul Ala Maududi cites a notion that " Al-Khushoo of the heart is to fear and stand in awe of a powerful person, and al-Khushoo of the body is to bow one's head and lower one's gaze and voice in his presence.

The title contributes the notion that it is not just crossing a border, but at one point, the crossing of one's soul between dream and consciousness, reality and narrative, youth and maturity, and life and death.

The underlying source of these three approaches to finding happiness is based, according to Trungpa, on the mistaken notion that one's ego is inherently existent and a valid point of view.

The ' Ba ' ( b3 ) is in some regards the closest to the contemporary Western religious notion of a soul, but it also was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of ' personality '.

On the basis of his hylomorphic theory, Aristotle rejects the Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation, ridiculing the notion that just any soul could inhabit just any body.

For Gnostics, every human being is born with a small piece of God's soul lodged within his / her spirit ( akin to the notion of a ' Divine Spark ').

" Scholars have noted that the notion of the " disembodied existence of a soul in bliss " is not in accordance with a Hebrew world view: " While Hebrew thought world distinguished soul from body ( as material basis of life ), there was no question of two separate, independent entities.

1996 ), says " But to the Bible man is not a soul in a body but a body / soul unity ", the Encyclopedia of Judaism ’ ( 2000 ), says " Scripture does not present even a rudimentarily developed theology of the soul ", the New Dictionary of Theology ’ ( 2000 ), and " The notion of the soul as an independent force that animates human life but that can exist apart from the human body — either prior to conception and birth or subsequent to life and death — is the product only of later Judaism ", Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible ( 2000 ), says " Far from referring simply to one aspect of a person, “ soul ” refers to the whole person ", the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says " Possibly Jn.

The origin of the notion of synderesis as presented here can be traced, on the one hand, to the Commentary on Ezechiel by Saint Jerome ( A. D. 347-419 ), where syntéresin ( συντήρησιν ) is mentioned among the powers of the soul and is described as the spark of conscience ( scintilla conscientiae ) and, on the other, to the interpretation of Jerome's text given, in the 13th Century, by Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas in the light of Aristotelian psychology and ethics.

The notion of the vampire having an immortal soul is the focal point of this Vampiric identity.

When the full ontological consistence or build-up of the reality variably called mind, soul, psyche, or existentiality is called " consciousness " and deemed to exclusively consist in mental contents associated with and at least partly generated by the brain organ, the notion of neural correlate of consciousness is commonly employed.

Similar to the notion of the soul, the higher self can be defined by many different sects ; while also being a topic of interest in the scientific and philosophical fields.

The Lurianic idea that all physical and spiritual Creations possess their particular bodily " soul ", explains the notion that gilgul can involve a person's soul occasionally being exiled into lower creatures, plants or even stones.

In accordance with the notion that the human body and the eternal soul are separate entities, he asserted that the soul is the cause of intellect — specifically, that the soul is an intellectual substance which renders the human form intelligible.

He also denied the existence of the soul and dismissed the notion of free will.

The notion of soul used by Aristotle is only distantly related to the usual modern conception.

We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and the arts.

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.

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

This note describes the evolution of the notion of alms ( and by extension of altruism ) from the notion of sacrifice.

That notion is central for explaining how formal systems come into being starting from a small set of axioms and rules.

He argues that this casts doubt on the notion that recessions are caused by a reallocation of resources from industrial production to consumption, since he argues that the Austrian business cycle theory implies that net investment should be below zero during recessions.

Accordingly, these Protestants strip the notion of apostolic succession from the definition of " apostolic " or " apostolicity.

This represents a considerable departure from the traditional notion that directors ' duties are owed only to the company.

This can be expressed more precisely by the notion of expected value, which is uniformly negative ( from the player's perspective ).

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.

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.

This notion stems from what the people of the Shang Dynasty could observe around them: day and night cycled, the seasons progressed again and again, and even the moon waxed and waned until it waxed again.

However, a different notion of compactness altogether had also slowly emerged at the end of the 19th century from the study of the continuum, which was seen as fundamental for the rigorous formulation of analysis.

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is generally seen from a Christian perspective as less than the ideal, with specific opinions ranging from it being universally wrong to the notion that it sometimes is inevitable.

Crucial to the Jewish notion of chosenness is that it creates obligations exclusive to Jews, while non-Jews receive from God other covenants and other responsibilities.

Pepper, the notion of the concept album came to the forefront of the popular and critical mind, with the earlier prototypes and examples from traditional pop music and other genres sometimes forgotten.

This version of " critical " theory derives from the notion of literary criticism as establishing and enhancing the understanding and evaluation of literature in the search for truth.

Colonel Jack ( 1722 ) follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a " gentleman.

The notion of " thinking matter " is upheld and the " argument from design " discarded ... as hollow and unconvincing.

This intrinsic notion of dimension is one of the chief ways the mathematical notion of dimension differs from its common usages.

The notion of a directional derivative of a function from multivariable calculus is extended in Riemannian geometry to the notion of a covariant derivative of a tensor.