prenotions

Is it then possible that any one can more plainly confess his speaking things contrary to himself than this man does, who affirms those things which (he says) for their excellency seem to be fictions and to be spoken above man and human nature, to be agreeable to life, and most of all to reach the inbred prenotions?

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

He says, that the doctrine concerning good and evil which himself introduces and approves is most agreeable to life, and does most of all reach the inbred prenotions; for this he has affirmed in his Third Book of Exhortations.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

But reason, which gives us the denomination of rational, is completed by prenotions in the first seven years.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Some of these notions are naturally begotten according to the aforesaid manner, without the assistance of art; the others are produced by discipline, learning, and industry; these only are justly called notions, the others are prenotions.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

In his PREROGATIVE INSTANCES, the mind of man is brought out already from its SPECIFIC narrowness, from its own abstract logical conceits and arrogant prenotions, into that collision with fact -- the broader fact, the universal fact -- and subjected to that discipline from it which is the intention of this logic.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

It is a 'machine' which is meant to serve to Man as a '_New' Mind_ -- the scientific mind, which is in harmony with nature -- a mind informed and enlarged with the universal laws, the laws of KINDS, instead of the spontaneous uninstructed mind, instead of the narrow specific mind of a barbaric race, filled with its own preposterous prenotions and vain conceits, and at war with universal nature; boldly pursuing its deadly feud with _that_, priding itself on it, making a virtue of it.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835