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.

Grant favored limited use of federal troops, lest they engender the notion he was acting as a military dictator ; he was also concerned that increased military pressure in the South might cause white supremacists in the North to bolt from the Republican Party.

It also weakened the notion of white superiority, widely accepted in Western society before that.

The notion of " white people " or a " white race " as a large group of populations contrasting with non-white or " colored " originates in the 17th century.

Pragmatic description of populations as " white " in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient sources.

In effect, he made a compromise between the ancient white mensural notation with a rigid tactus and the modern notion of tempo.

The notion they come only in white is a common misconception, as the rules have recently been changed to include colored Angoras, as well as ruby-eyed whites.

This stood in contrast to the National Party, which was firmly and unequivocally behind the notion of preserving white supremacy at all costs.

" I think that in some quarters, many parts of the country, a white male is really disadvantaged … Because we have developed this notion of women and minorities being so disadvantaged and we have to help them, that we have, in many cases, twisted the thing so that it's no longer a case of equal opportunity.

His father was believed to be a white man, and most people actually had the notion that Douglass was the son of his owner.

" In producing this piece, Tansey " discovered the notion of the ‘ unlimited brush '- any object able to carry paint could function as a brush ... touch was equivalent to light ... scraping off the paint let the white ground show through.

The notion of an American Renaissance has been criticized for overemphasizing a small number of white male writers and artefacts of high culture.

* Conversion to 8-bit integer format for display on computer monitors or transfer to video typically involves the notion of the " black point " and " white point " used for conversion to more limited range video signals.

When Daniel Craig was announced as James Bond in 2005, intense criticism of the casting decision ( made by Eon Productions ) included the notion that the actor was too short to play 007, even though at Craig is above average height for a white British male.

The notion that the indigenous peoples of Australia had their own form of law was rejected by the British, and from the time of white settlement Aborigines were subjected to English law.

From the 1880s onwards, a few white Southern authors, such as George Washington Cable and Mark Twain ( often considered a Southerner because he grew up in the slave state of Missouri and wrote about the South ) dismissed this nostalgia by pointing out the blatant racism and exploitation of blacks at that time, and ridiculing the notion of Southern " chivalry ".

Similarly, writers such as St. Augustine propounded the notion that deafness, much as white supremacist conceptions of the nature of black skin, was a hereditary " curse " from God.

Contemporary black commentators argued that to white audiences, Connelly's The Green Pastures simply reinforced the notion that black people presented a danger that needed to be contained.

According to Goldmark, the choice of performers caricatured is telling ; that Armstrong and Calloway are depicted as angels indicates that their crossover appeal was strong enough among whites that white audiences would not have felt threatened by the notion that they were angels in Heaven.

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.

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.

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

Indeed, naive set theory might be said to be based on this notion.

:" His only idea at the time was that it might be possible, in terms of effective calculability as an undefined notion, to state a set of axioms which would embody the generally accepted properties of this notion, and to do something on that basis ".

Rather, he regarded the notion of " effective calculability " as merely a " working hypothesis " that might lead by inductive reasoning to a " natural law " rather than by " a definition or an axiom ".

A forerunner of the modern ideas of cyberspace is the Cartesian notion that people might be deceived by an evil demon that feeds them a false reality.

Under the notion that the Antichrist, as a single individual, might be of Jewish origin, he fancies that the mention of " Dan ," in Jeremiah 8: 16, and the omission of that name from those tribes listed in Revelation 7, might indicate the Antichrist's tribe.

If on the other hand, we define the notion of what is physical based some future idealized physics, we have not effectively defined anything at all because nobody knows what entities a future physical theory might postulate.

In some discourses, Wright argued, the role of the truth predicate might be played by the notion of superassertibility.

Some philosophers have brought up some puzzles that are supposed to cast some doubt on whether the notion of omnipotence is coherent, or that are supposed to force us to rethink our notion of what omnipotence might be, anyway.

In Satisficing Consequentialism Michael Slote argues for a form of utilitarianism where “ an act might qualify as morally right through having good enough consequences, even though better consequences could have been produced .” One advantage of such a system is that it would be able to accommodate the notion of supererogatory actions.

He defends an interesting and sophisticated system of vague semantics, based on the notion that a vague predicate might be " made precise " in many alternative ways.

Estragon suggests that they hang themselves, but they abandon the idea when it seems that they might not both die: leaving one of them alone, an intolerable notion.

* Tribalism and its sociological meaning-The ancient Germanic custom and notion of weregild represents a quintessential illustration of early-to-middle-stage tribalism-necessarily ethnocentric ( ethnocentrism an anthropological universal among tribal-stage societies )-beginning to attempt to develop conceptual-moral " justice "-the judicial prevention of societal self-destruction by endless, wild, lawless vendettas and might makes right " fist-law ".

In Late Antiquity the notion of a Scythian ethnicity grew more vague, and outsiders might dub any people inhabiting the Pontic-Caspian steppe as " Scythians ", regardless of their language.

The fact that Rome came to rely on North African grain as quickly as she did after conquering Carthage makes any notion that she might have destroyed Carthaginian farmlands quite doubtful.

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.

À nous la liberté director Clair was an outspoken admirer of Chaplin, was flattered by the notion that the film icon might imitate him, deeply embarrassed that Tobis Film would sue Chaplin and was never part of the case.

When Emil Post in his 1921 Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions extended his proof of the consistency of the propositional calculus ( i. e. the logic ) beyond that of Principia Mathematica ( PM ) he observed that with respect to a generalized set of postulates ( i. e. axioms ) he would no longer be able to automatically invoke the notion of " contradiction " – such a notion might not be contained in the postulates:

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

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 ".

In a brief put forth by the Council for Responsible Genetics, it was stated that sexual orientation is not fixed either way, and on the discourse over sexual orientation: " Noticeably missing from this debate is the notion, championed by Kinsey, that human sexual expression is as variable among people as many other complex traits.

Cocteau himself was aware of this perception, and worked earnestly to dispel the notion that their relationship was sexual in nature.

With the well-publicized notion that sexual acts were a part of lesbianism and their relationships, sexual experimentation was widespread.

Friedrich Engels, among others studying historical groups, formed the notion that some contemporary primitive peoples did not grasp the link between sexual intercourse and pregnancy.

The law in Sweden, Norway and Iceland – where it is illegal to pay for sex, but not to sell sexual services – is based on the notion that all forms of prostitution are inherently exploitative, opposing the notion that prostitution can be voluntary.

The concept of pansexuality deliberately rejects the gender binary, the " notion of two genders and indeed of specific sexual orientations ", as pansexual people are open to relationships with people who do not identify as strictly men or women.

Justice Byron White's majority opinion emphasized that Eisenstadt and Roe had only recognized a right to engage in procreative sexual activity, and that long-standing moral antipathy toward homosexual sodomy was enough to argue against the notion of a " right " to sodomy.

Stephen Spender expressed the notion that the novel was plainly autobiographical and a sexual confession on Vidal's part ; this has been denied by Vidal.

A famous large-scale analysis of shoplifters in the United Kingdom ridiculed Stekel's notion of sexual symbolism and claimed that one out of five apprehended shoplifters was a " psychiatric ".

Wallace argued against sexual selection, saying that the male-against-male fighting aspects were simply forms of natural selection, and that the notion of " female choice " was attributing the ability to judge standards of beauty to animals far too cognitively undeveloped to be capable of aesthetic feeling ( such as beetles ).

Jeffreys ( 2009 ) for example provides a collection of essay on China ’ s approach to governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health where the notion of ' Chinese governmentally ' is based not on the notion of ‘ freedom and liberty ' as in the western tradition but rather, on a distinct rational approach to planning and administration.

In his article on Erotica in 17th century genre pieces, de Jongh argues that dead hunted birds and animals most likely all refer back to the notion of eroticism and availability of the woman depicted because birding and hunting were synonyms for sexual encounters.

In " Nightfall and Other Stories ," Asimov claimed that any " parlor psychologist " would claim that this story is highly indicative of underlying sexual tensions, but he dismissed this notion as ludicrous.

A significant fallout of this has been that sexual desire between men, which was near universal earlier, is now become more and more isolated from the mainstream, as men are distancing themselves from it because of the stigma of effeminacy or third gender attached to the notion of ' gay.

Harbison urges the notion that one needs to conduct a multivalent reading of the painting that includes references to the secular and sexual context of the Burgundian court, as well as religious and sacramental references to marriage.

He is known for introducing the notion that in the event of a " life or death situation ", Halakha does not apply ( unless it involves the transgression of Judaism's three " cardinal sins ": Worship of idols ( avoda zara ), sexual immorality ( gilui arayot ), and murder ( shfichut damim when a Jew is then obligated to give his life ( yehareg ve ' al ya ' avor ) rather than transgress the Torah's commandments ).

This drew attention away from the notion of African-American women being sexual figures.