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notion and body
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 popular notion of a black hole " sucking in everything " in its surroundings is therefore only correct near a black hole's horizon ; far away, the external gravitational field is identical to that of any other body of the same mass.
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 ).
* 431 BC: The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief that dominates medical thinking for centuries.
* The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humours: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.
The traditional view of archaeologists, that the appearance of urbanization at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis was criticised by François Polignac in 1984 and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta for example was established in a network of villages. The term polis which in archaic Greece meant city, changed with the development of the governance center in the city to indicate state ( which included its surrounding villages ), and finally with the emergence of a citizenship notion between the land owners it came to describe the entire body of citizens.
In this notion, a fixed initial state of a macroscopic system corresponds to relatively low entropy because the coordinates of the molecules of the body are constrained.
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.
Kean had previously acted Tate's Lear, but told his wife that the London audience " have no notion of what I can do till they see me over the dead body of Cordelia.
According to Donelley, " Twentieth century biblical scholarship largely agrees that the ancient Jews had little explicit notion of a personal afterlife until very late in the Old Testament period ," and " only the latest stratum of the Old Testament asserts even the resurrection of the body.
" 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.
To achieve that purpose, they evolved a set of techniques and developed a body of knowledge that enables the sorceror to transform into a high-speed inorganic being with an endless lifespan ( not unlike the spiritual notion of Ascending the body, but without the baggage ).
Instead of relying on this triple of jointly defined physical concepts, some writers, motivated by a desire for axiomatic parsimony and precision or mathematical elegance, prefer to define thermal equilibrium by relying on a presupposed notion of thermodynamic equilibrium, in which all mechanically measurable properties of a body have become stationary, and one infers that consequently the otherwise undefined thermal properties also are stationary.
In 1896, Stumpf presided over the Third International Congress of Psychology, and delivered the inaugural address on the relation between mind and body ; he advocated an interactionalist position that opposed the popular notion of psychophysical parallelism.
At this point, the notion of nirmanakaya, or created body of a Buddha, became linked to a notion of regular manifestation ().
Psychosomatic virtuality, in cases such as the placebo effect, challenges the notion of mind / body dualism.
One of the founders of modern Islamist thought he is credited with first developing the notion, later put in operation in Iran, of having western style democratic elections, but with a body of Muslim scholars to ensure all laws corresponded with Islamic teachings.
Dependency theory or dependencia theory is a body of social science theories predicated on the notion that resources flow from a " periphery " of poor and underdeveloped states to a " core " of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former.
From this possibility of self-determination even the notion of Workers ' self-management is seen as problematic since " Far from the emergence of proletarian power, ... this self-management as a moment of the self-harnessing of the workers to capitalist production in the period of real subsumption ... Mistaking the individual capitalist ( who, in real subsumption disappears into the collective body of share ownership on one side, and hired management on the other ) rather than the enterprise as the problem, ... the workers themselves became a collective capitalist, taking on responsibility for the exploitation of their own labor.
It was known long before the discovery of the notion of entropy that when two bodies of different temperatures are connected with each other by purely thermal connection, conductive or radiative, then heat always flows from the hotter body to the colder one.

notion and mind
( Hume 1974: 353-354 ) He produces like arguments against the notion that we have knowledge of these powers as they affect the mind alone.
According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.
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.
The notion of tabula rasa (" clean slate " or " blank tablet ") connotes a view of mind as an originally blank or empty recorder ( Locke used the words " white paper ") on which experience leaves marks.
He proposes that most commonly accepted social institutions — including the notion of State, property as a right, natural rights in general, and the very notion of society — were mere spooks in the mind.
In fact, the very notion of finding coherence and permanence within sensory experience was so preposterous to him, that he had to postulate the notion of a God who holds all reality in HIS mind, in order to explain why the world doesn't just vanish when we stop perceiving it.
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 ).
However, besides some arguments by the Stoics and Peripatetics, the notion of the mind as a blank slate went largely unnoticed for more than 1, 000 years.
Now, suppose that we do understand the notion of a mind creating something out of nothing.
So that is one problem about the notion that God is a mind — namely, it is hard really to understand the very notion that a mind can create physical objects out of nothing.
But now another problem about the notion that God is a mind arises.
But this makes the very notion of the divine mind exceedingly strange.
Those, at least, are the claims stemming from the basic notion that the sort of thing that the divine spirit is, is a timeless, creative mind.
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.
He contends that the very notion of a collection of " thoughts " that exist in a privileged region of the mind such that they are in principle never accessible to conscious awareness, is incoherent.
) The scenario will typically be designed to target a particular philosophical notion, such as morality, or the nature of the mind or linguistic reference.
" The notion that ' sacrifice is made equally to God and Apollo ', in the same place where homage was due to God and God alone, was as repugnant to Fell and his colleagues as it had been to Laud "; with this in mind they approached the current Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Sheldon, for his blessing, his assistance, and a donation.
An argument against this states the notion that such manipulation may be possible but barred from the conscious self via the subconscious self, a ' locked ' portion of the mind that is still nevertheless the same mind.
* Axioms are propositions, the task of which is to make precise the notion of identity of two objects pre-existing in our mind.

notion and being
They would like to convey the notion something is being done, even though it is something they know to be ineffectual.
That notion is central for explaining how formal systems come into being starting from a small set of axioms and rules.
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.
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.
Scholars inside and outside Germany unanimously reject the notion, pointing out the German army was out of reserves and was being overwhelmed in late 1918.
Thomas disliked being regarded as a provincial poet, and decried any notion of ' Welshness ' in his poetry.
There are many variants of empiricism, positivism and realism being among the most commonly expounded but central to all empiricist epistemologies is the notion of the epistemologically privileged status of sense data.
Continuing his chastisement of Luther — and undoubtedly put off by the notion of there being “ no pure interpretation of Scripture anywhere but in Wittenberg ” – Erasmus touches upon another important point of the controversy:
He therefore argued that, while some individuals may have henotheistically chosen one god to worship, Egyptian religion as a whole had no notion of a divine being beyond the immediate multitude of deities.
New theories of social and political psychology also rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice, and instead claimed that emotion was more influential in political issues than reason.
The dual notion of a quotient group is a subgroup, these being the two primary ways of forming a smaller group from a larger one.
Hasia Diner has accused Peter Novick and Finkelstein of being " harsh critics of American Jewry from the left ," and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.
When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.
This is consistent with the notion that being treated fairly satisfies a basic need ".
The notion of an originally divine mankind being held captive by sinister forces is borrowed from gnosticism.
Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.
From this verb come amans — a lover, amator, " professional lover ," often with the accessory notion of lechery — and amica, " girlfriend " in the English sense, often as well being applied euphemistically to a prostitute.
Waid's original intention was to jettison the notion of Lex Luthor being an evil businessman, restoring his status as a mad scientist.
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.
The purpose of the concept of a net, first introduced by E. H. Moore and H. L. Smith in 1922, is to generalize the notion of a sequence so as to confirm the equivalence of the conditions ( with " sequence " being replaced by " net " in condition 2 ).
* All else being equal, the course of war will tend to favour the party with the stronger emotional and political motivations, but especially the defender ( a notion that surprises and confuses many readers, who typically expect a soldier — especially a German soldier — to be a proponent of aggressive warfare ).
To define more exactly the Buddhist notion of the highest being, it may be convenient to borrow the term very happily coined by a modern German scholar, " panentheism ," according to which God is πᾶν καὶ ἕν ( all and one ) and more than the totality of existence.
Post-Structuralists generally reject the notion of formulations of “ essential relations ” in primitive cultures, languages, or descriptions of psychological phenomena being forms of Aristotelianism, Rationalism, or Idealism.
Derrida utilized, like Heidegger, references to Greek philosophical notions associated with the Skeptics and the Presocratics, such as Epoché and Aporia to articulate his notion of implicit circularity between premises and conclusions, origins and manifestations, but-in a manner analogous in certain respects to Gilles Deleuze-presented a radical re-reading of canonical philosophical figures such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes as themselves being informed by such " destabilizing " notions.

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