Noun

(en noun)

Mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.

* (George Cheyne) (1671-1743)

Few agree in their notions about these words.

* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.

* (Alexander Hamilton) (ca.1756-1804)

Notion , again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.

A sentiment; an opinion.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.

* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)

A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke

(label) Sense; mind. Shakespeare.

(label) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.

(label) Inclination; intention; disposition.

Noun

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

* Jeremy Taylor

Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.