Famous quotes containing the words common and/or notions:
“Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as Money-deficiency,Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)
“the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.”
—Zeno Vendler (b. 1921)