notions

The sum total of my moral and intellectual intercourse, dissolved into its elements, is reduced to extension, motion, degrees of velocity, and those diminished copies of configurative motion, which form what we call notions, and notions of notions.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

One of quantum physics 'crazier notions is that two particles seem to communicate with each other instantly, even when they're billions of miles apart.

Thor's Day kschap 2009

In his book, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, he writes: Trying to define conscious experience in terms of more primitive notions is fruitless.

Book Review: Quantum Enigma 2009

Common ground/common problem: Both traditional and new stories are grounded in notions of autonomy and idealized notions of consent.

WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Common ground/common problem: Both traditional and new stories are grounded in notions of autonomy and idealized notions of consent.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

“Love thy neighbor” and “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” are both tenents grounded in notions of “social justice.”

“Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

Discounts may not appeal to certain notions of fairness, but they certainly appeal to objective market notions of profitability.

Free Trade with the AARP, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But no; you wouldn't listen, you with your highfalutin 'notions an' more pairs of shoes than any decent woman should have.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

This was designed to educate the court from the outset by indirectly dispelling certain notions about battered women.

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

He believes these good qualities are expressed in notions of duty, love of family and of country, by extension, as the emblem of the tribe.

Archive 2007-01-14 Newmania 2007