Through the exercise of imaginative sympathy, we form notions of justice, morality, beauty, taste, good manners and order and also, this being the 18th century, subordination.
By this, he means to say that most philosophy reproduces, in highly abstract form, notions about the world whose effect is to sustain existing socio-economic relations.
It may seem strange to begin a talk about the West in terms of old books that had nothing Western about them, and of naive fabrications of stodgily fantastical, authoritative worlds, which answered only to my own forming notions of meaning and importance.
Kantner and Potter (1954 295) argued that any intergenerational fertility transmission in modern populations is largely determined by the older generation forming notions or instilling preferences about family formation in the younger generation, but they found that such effects were, in any case, trivial.
But it was impossible to translate these sights and sounds into my already formed notion of what a great city was.
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7. The full passage reads as follows (L 5: 47): "I will show here how men come to form the notion [la notion] of space.
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In its full form, both notions are incomparable since the intuitionistic real numbers possess properties that the classical real numbers do not have.
Typically these methods form probabilistic notions of the connectivity based on sampling individual paths; it is an approach that quantifies the uncertainty of connections [33, 34, 13, 35].
(I.1.1; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 99) He calls them "modes"—in accord with their dependence on self-subsistent entities (cf. Forde 2011, on Lockean "mixed modes")—and says that they are invented (inventis) by reflective beings who, by comparing things, form certain notions "superadded" to or "imposed" on the world in order to direct or temper free and voluntary human acts.
