NOT 
Notion, 4 firft objefivz, is the thing itfelf known, ac- 
cording to what it is, or has in itfelf; as the fire known 
fire, &c 
Norion, Second formal, is the knowledge of a nak aes ac- 
cording to what it receives from the underitanding : as, 
fire, that it is the fubje&, and not the predicate. 
. OTION, sic objeGive, is what agrees to the thing by 
s of the operation of the intelle&t, or what it receives 
fos n the inte 
Notro | Conon, called alfo prenotions, apormh tt¢y 
ertain principles ‘uppofed by fome ana 
HOME EVOL, ATE 
t ate ch therefore are felf- eviden nt, @. é. ap- 
ftrated hereby. 
Thefe common notions, confidered as the foundations of 
{ciences, are called axioms. 
They are called common, not a s if fo a@tually and necef- 
y could 
o 
oO 
ignor 
be ane and certain, by all perfons of foun 
For the fame reafon as we fay, fuch a food i is s wholefome 
not that it is fo to all men, but to all that are of a found 
body and conttitution. Ariftot. Topic. c. 4. 
The ere are two kinds of common notions, viz. theoretical, 
which lay the ground. work for fpeculation; fuch are, every 
thing either is, or is not; nothing can be made by itfelf ; 
the whole is greater than a part; equal things being added 
to equal, the “fums are equal: and praéfical, which lay the 
foundation for honefty, and good morals; fuch are, God is 
to be beloved, and worfhipped ; our parents to a honoured ; 
to give every body their due; to do as would be 
ne by. 
Som e philofophers, however, and thofe even of beft note, 
ny repare 
it to think, but that an innate faculty of thinking may fuf- 
re as appears in an infant, from its perception of pain, 
. They add, that the common organs of 
ae if they have but objeas prefented to them, and the 
faculty we have of reflecting on, and varioufly combining or 
ordering, the ideas received thereby, are fufficient to furnith’ 
us with all a ftock of knowledge we have. See [nza and 
ommon SENSE 
NOTIONA va Quantity. See QUANTI 
NOTITIA, Noricz, as that ie come under a 
perfon’s knowledge or obferva 
Hence no/ification, the a: on ‘of giving notice, & 
Norra is alfo the title of certain books, coaeone for 
giving: a particular knowledge of the sa roads, &c. of 
a province, kingdom, diocefe, or the hi 
Such is the Notitia Imperii, &c. M. Val ois has given a 
Notitia Galliarum, being a collection of na feveral names 
which the cities and provinces of that kingdom bore at 
different times. 
- are eae Soa Impenii, both ae aaa weft. 
as) 
3 
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a. 
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ga 
3 
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ct 
3 
“Oo 
tmoft ufe both in the Roman and in 
eee ieee 3 yet they are on nts ai a leaft 
to young people, without good nctes; fuch are thofe of 
Pancirollus, &c. and unlefs the tet "which is ftrangely 
corrupted and se be fuppli 
NOTKER, or Norcer, in Biography, furnamed the 
Stammerer, a celebrated monk of the abbe ey of St. Gall, 
who ftourifhed in the ninth and tenth centuries, was de- 
— 
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NOT 
fcended from a noble family, and born within a fhort 
e 
t. Gall, and to sok. ee religions habit amon 
monaltery o 
e became diftinguifhed 
the Benevigtines on that foundation 
q 
ing ie cour efe of feveral years he had the condu& of 
he ee ols dependent on the abbey, and occupied his hours 
of lerfure in the compofition of literary works, and the 
cia . books of merit. He died at an advanced 
age, in the year g12. He was beatified by pope Julius IT. 
here are dil extant by him « A Martyrology,’’ in Baf- 
nage’s ‘ Thefaurus Monumentorum Eccleliaiticos um et Hif- 
toricotum :’’ fome other of his productions may be feen 
in the “ Novus Thefaurus Monumentorum” of D. Pez. 
Moreri. 
or Norcer, a celebrated a of ange in 
the tenth al eleventh centuries, a native of Sua as 
faid to be the fon of a duke of ' that coun Outen others 
affirm that he was ae sare tho ol, ie ie ame a mo 
e became a favourite tho I. 
him to the high aoa of bifhop of Liege: 
he ont in his fee, when he devifed meafures for improving 
the y furrounding it with a wall, rebuilding the ca- 
nea pe feveral of the other churches, and erecting 
various magnificent ftructures, . Los he ebiainee the title 
of “* founder of the city.”? He wa o 
the learning and fence of thofe oe and faftained a con. 
fiderable part in the management of public affairs. He wa 
prefent at the council of bare : the year 995, and at 
that of Frankfort in1007. He died in the year tr 
him has been attributed “A Hilto ory of the Bi 
Liege,’? which is inferted in Chapeauville? S Colle@ion of 
Pieces relating to the Hittory of the City. reri. 
NOTO, in er a town of Sweden, in the pro- 
vince of Smaland; 39 miles S.W. 0 exio. 
Noro, Valley of; a divifion of Sicily, in the S.E. part 
of cae — 
a prea 
r Noto Nuova, a town of Sicily, in the above 
Pre elie, built after the deftruction of Noto Antico 
by an ewer in the year Hee 3 20 mi iles 8. W. of Sy- 
racufe. la 30 438'. E. lon 
Ru ae in the povernment of Archangel, 
n length, and 8 in breadth; 36 miles 
0, a foal ifland in the Baltic, E, of 
A N. lat. 59° 5 ©. long. 20° 17.—-Alfo, a town 
of Japan, in ie fland of Niphon ; ; 200 miles N.W. of 
Je 
ONECTA, the Boat-fly, in Entomology, a genus 
it has four wings, folded croffwife ; on the upper half 
EA coriaceous; the hind legs are hairy and formed for 
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