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

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.

In the eighteenth century there emerges for the first time the notion of a private tragedy ( or nearly for the first time, there having been a small number of Elizabethan domestic tragedies such as the famous Arden Of Feversham ).

For if the small group notion involves the implicit claim that the phenomena of sociological investigations are of atomic or subatomic proportions, the philosopher needs to know the extent to which such entities are valid.

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.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

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 ).

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.

Model theory generalizes the notion of algebraic extension to arbitrary theories: an embedding of M into N is called an algebraic extension if for every x in N there is a formula p with parameters in M, such that p ( x ) is true and the set

This use of counterpoint maintains coherence even as it extends the notion of a round, familiar in songs such as the traditional " Frère Jacques ", into something more complex.

In such an environment ( as opposed to smooth curves ) Mandelbrot asserts " coastline length turns out to be an elusive notion that slips between the fingers of those who want to grasp it.

20th-century anthropologists largely reject the notion that all human societies must pass through the same stages in the same order, on the grounds that such a notion does not fit the empirical facts.

A proven conspiracy theory, such as the notion that Nixon and his aides were behind the Watergate break-in and cover-up, is usually referred to as something else, such as investigative journalism or historical analysis.

In light of this, and the practical difficulty of managing such long keys, modern cryptographic practice has discarded the notion of perfect secrecy as a requirement for encryption, and instead focuses on computational security, under which the computational requirements of breaking an encrypted text must be infeasible for an attacker.

Some branches of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, typically influenced by the French school of Bourbaki, use the term quasi-compact for the general notion, and reserve the term compact for topological spaces that are both Hausdorff and quasi-compact.

Terms such as " media imperialism ", " structural imperialism ", " cultural dependency and domination ", " cultural synchronization ", " electronic colonialism ", " ideological imperialism ", and " economic imperialism " have all been used to describe the same basic notion of cultural imperialism.

The dissenters were discontented with the general leftward trend in USCJ policies over the previous decades, such as " prayer book revision, egalitarianism, redefining halakhic boundaries of sexual relationships, and advocacy of Israel accepting conversions that are non-halakhic even by Conservative standards "., and the Union suggests that " The Conservative Movement thus appears to endorse the notion that changing societal norms can supersede the proper application of halakhic sources ".

Due to the similarities between the Chinese and Indian philosophies, the notion of chakras was quickly blended into Chinese practices such as acupuncture and belief in ki.

This view is heavily influenced by modernization theory, but is also strongly influenced by indigenous sources such as the notion of " shijie datong " or the Great Unity.

It rejects the notion that Jesus or any other object or living being could be ' God ', that God could have a literal ' son ' in physical form or is divisible in any way, or that God could be made to be joined to the material world in such fashion.

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.

# Deontological ethics, notions based on ' rules ' i. e. that there is an obligation to perform the ' right ' action, regardless of actual consequences ( epitomized by Kant's notion of the Categorical Imperative )

The notion of calling meant that each individual had to take action in order to be saved ; just being a member of the Church was not enough.

John Nolland comments that it shares the notions of " good fortune and demanding action in attaining the kingdom of heaven " with that parable, but adds the notion of " diligent seeking.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

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.

This open letter criticised Wilson's notion of a " deterministic view of human society and human action ".

Puritan theology was based on the Calvinist notion that not everyone would be saved ; there was only a specific number of the elect who would avoid damnation, and this was based sheerly on God's predetermined will and not on any action you could perform in this life.

Localized wave packets, " bursts " of wave action where each wave packet travels as a unit, find application in many fields of physics ; the notion of a wavelength also may be applied to these wave packets.

He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....

Plotinus offers an alternative to the orthodox Christian notion of creation ex nihilo ( out of nothing ), which attributes to God the deliberation of mind and action of a will, although Plotinus never mentions Christianity in any of his works.

This is close to the notion of " tit for tat " introduced by Anatol Rapoport, although there still seems a slight distinction in that " tit for tat " cooperates in the first period and from thereon always replicates an opponent ’ s previous action, whereas “ reciprocal altruists ” stop cooperation in the first instance of non-cooperation by an opponent and stay non-cooperative from thereon.

The notion of an " incorporeal potency " is similar to that of " action at a distance " except the former notion remained purely qualitative and there is no inkling of the fundamental " action and reaction " principle.

" It is derived from the Greek words στίγμα stigma " mark, sign " and ἔργον ergon " work, action ", and captures the notion that an agent ’ s actions leave signs in the environment, signs that it and other agents sense and that determine and incite their subsequent actions.

Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.

Anguish is also associated with Sartre's notion of despair, which he defines as optimistic reliance on a set of possibilities that make action possible.

His account of the notion of external existence, as it derived not from pure sensation, but from the experience of action on the one hand and resistance on the other, stands in this light to be compared with the works of Alexander Bain and later psychologists.

Opponents of the notion of " moral clarity " also note that organizations such as al Qaida and neo-Nazis also believe that their own point of view is one of " moral clarity ", which justifies them to take whatever action they feel necessary against what they see as the " forces of evil ".

Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived " reality ", and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness.

Since right multiplication by G on the fiber commutes with the action of the structure group, there exists an invariant notion of right multiplication by G on P. The fibers of π then become right G-torsors for this action.

" Apap insists that in prompting his readers to " move ,” Walker rejected the notion that the blacks should “ sit idly by and wait for God to fight their battles -- they must ( and implicit in Walker's language is the assumption that they will ) take action and move to claim what is rightfully and morally theirs .”