These competing perspectives on the range of viable solutions will flow also from the fact that theories normally carry with them implicit and explicit notions of how society ought to be structured.

The Vice President's speech, with its implicit notion that the Republicans had better morals than their Democratic counterparts, gave the convention's final night a razor's edge.

The book is an essay in political philosophy, a "new view" of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will "challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy."

At the heart of this mythical Paris is the implicit notion of a kind of democracy based on talent and sensuousness.

She ridiculed the notion - implicit, she thought, in Mr. Smith's rendition of events - that his "animal magnetism" made him difficult for a woman to resist.

There is a notion of autonomy implicit in some philosophical writing and including the work of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Marx.

We may, to be more precise, have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth.

In his testimony, Sulaiman, the W.B.C. president since 1975, resisted the implicit notion of Hunterton that King had prodded him to overturn Douglas's victory.

"Even when you're dealing with public property, you have to consider people's implicit notions of property rights," Dr. Van Doren said.

The idea of school report cards is elegant in its simplicity and fetching in its implicit notion of grading the graders.