"Our system of law and order, of punishment, and praise and blame, promise keeping, promise making, the law of contracts, criminal law – all of this depends on one notion or another of free will.
That is to say, if two notions share the same feature (both "+" or both "−" or both "±"), 1 point will be allotted; if the two notions behave the opposite on the same semantic feature (one "+" and the other "−"), −1 point will be allotted; and if one notion is neutral on the semantic feature and the other is not ("+" or "−"), 0.5 point will be allotted.
What we are witnessing, over many decades but creeping on with alarming speed, is the replacement of one notion of the public with another.
One notion this conference strove to correct was the idea that the Tories are a one-class party.
Doing a straightforward adaptation was one notion, but then Collins had a brainwave: why not focus on the very thing that most productions would try to disguise: the medium.
That's just one notion of democracy — ours.
One notion he has come up with, he said, is "the idea of fame".
Still, there is one notion that the tasting should have dispelled, and that is that California wines do not last.
One notion from a graduate student was to doctor the checks you send by poking tiny holes with a pin where the account numbers appear.
If Mr. Yee's teaching could be reduced to one notion it would be, "Don't run away from discomfort, in a yoga pose or in life".
One notion is that the sinking marked "the end of the old days" of nineteenth-century technological confidence, as well as of "noblesse oblige"; another is a sense that people behaved better back then, whether noblesse, steerage, or crew.
