prenotion

Updated: May 3, 2025

It must be also confessed that the point is established that we have naturally this idea, as I said before, or prenotion, of the existence of the Gods.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

For what nation, what people are there, who have not, without any learning, a natural idea, or prenotion, of a Deity?

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

It is known, too, that people often say strange things from confused or indistinct recollections of what has befallen them in a prior state of existence, or from prenotion or intuition of things as yet unknown to others; and although in the sciences we accept nothing as conclusive that is not confirmed by experiment, the vastness or strangeness of the thought, far from attracting ridicule, generally leads to inquiry, experiments, and results.

Benjamin Lumley - Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah