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  • 1notion — notionless, adj. /noh sheuhn/, n. 1. a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done. 2. an opinion, view, or belief: That s his notion, not mine. 3. conception or idea: his… …

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  • 2notion — no•tion [[t]ˈnoʊ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) a general, vague, or imperfect conception or idea 2) an opinion, view, or belief 3) a conception or idea: his notion of democracy[/ex] 4) a fanciful or foolish idea; whim 5) notions, small articles, as buttons,… …

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  • 3notion — /ˈnoʊʃən / (say nohshuhn) noun 1. a more or less general, vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: notions of beauty. 2. an opinion, view, or belief. 3. conception or idea. 4. a fanciful or foolish idea; whim. 5. (plural) US small… …

  • 4idea, concept, notion — Any thought existing in the mind may be called an idea, concept, or notion. The most widely used of these words, idea, should be applied to thoughts that are serious or elaborate: The surgeons weighed the idea of an immediate operation. The idea… …

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  • 5Concepcion Cabrera de Armida — Concepción Cabrera de Armida The Venerable Concepción Cabrera de Armida (born on December 8, 1862 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico and died on March 3, 1937 in Mexico City) was a Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and writer.[1][2] She is a …

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  • 6surmise — I. v. a. Imagine, suspect, conjecture, suppose, guess, divine, fancy, believe, think, presume. II. n. Conjecture, suspicion, supposition, guess, doubt, imperfect notion …

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  • 7Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus — Stephen Dumont LIFE AND WORKS Henry of Ghent Henry of Ghent was arguably the most influential Latin theologian between Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, regent as a leading master of theology at the University of Paris for the better part of the… …

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  • 8Aristotle: Ethics and politics — Roger Crisp ETHICS BACKGROUND AND METHOD Aristotle wrote no books on ethics. Rather, he gave lectures, the notes for which subsequently were turned by others into two books, the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) and the Eudemian Ethics (EE). There is much… …

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  • 9philosophy, Western — Introduction       history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present.       This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …

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  • 10HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …

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