Notion

Notion may refer to:

  • Notion (ancient city), a Greek city-state on the west coast of Anatolia
  • Notion (philosophy), a reflection in the mind of real objects and phenomena in their essential features and relations
  • Notions (sewing), small articles used in sewing and haberdashery
  • Notion (software), music composition and performance computer program
  • "Notion" (song), a 2008 song by Kings of Leon
  • Notions (Winchester College), the Winchester slang
  • Notion (window manager), http://notion.sourceforge.net/
  • Notions, the rules of conduct among Russian prison inmates in the old Soviet Union

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

    “The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    “Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)