"Sometimes, when I look back on my dreams of becoming a consultant surgeon, I feel sad about the notional future I have given up," Weston writes.
The eerie thing here is that Mr. Sarkozy clearly recognizes Germany's weaknesses and wariness as he tries to install its pairing with France as the hope of Europe's notional future.
"The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong".
The folly of interacting with a real child in order to test out a notional future relationship with an imaginary one (versus the obverse: the folly of rushing into that relationship with no experience or sense of one's aptitude whatsoever).
In methodical terms, future research projects notional causalities into the domain of combinatorial possibilities that management can then utilise to arrive at a decision.
Say you buy a crude oil futures contract with a notional value of $90,000.
But that, says the Treasury, highlights another very significant issue in calculating Scotland's actual future wealth comparable to its notional wealth.
Sitting in a Panera in Boston's financial district in early July with Jeremy Grantham, I suddenly found myself considering how I might safeguard my children's and notional grandchildren's future by somehow engineering the U.S. annexation of Morocco.
It was at this feverish juncture, at around 2 30 pm in Chicago, that an algorithmic program entered the market, charged with selling 75,000 "E-minis" -- electronically traded S&P 500 future contracts -- with a notional value of around $4 billion.
After other media picked up on the error, Taleb posted a correction on his web site in late June 2009 saying the $20 billion was notional exposure in future value of options, and the funds only made between "a quarter and a half a billion".
