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notion | American Dictionary

notion
noun[ C ]
us/ˈnoʊ·ʃən/
a belief or idea:
Nast helped form the American notion of Santa Claus.

Examples of notion

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Moreover, these histories fit better our notions of political argument than "true" history and thus are clearly biased in favor of the local patron community.
The prospects of linking the idea of cognitive maps with more general notions of memory and other cognitive processes are very intriguing.
Focal point selection is facilitated by cultural mechanisms that create shared notions among individuals.
We had better replace theoretical notions of altruism and selfishness by common sense.
We will mention several other useful notions in this section.
His findings challenge current notions about the informal sector.
They assumed the space to consist of sets of points and used settheoretic notions to define objects in that space.
The basic notions of rough set theory are for twin-concept classification and discrete attribute values.
Objections to boundary crossing occur when notions of purity, cultural significance and context-specificity clash with innovation, exploration and adventure.
Such extra-grammatical, codeswitching-speci®c notions diminish the strength of the theory of grammar that includes them.
As a result, certain key notions can be derived and guide the continuing discussion.
In this sense, it evokes notions of doing music or actively engaging in it.
All notions of an archaeological record presume that the material is being left behind by something which is not material: the past society.
In terms of the notions of transience and durability introduced above, the emphasis thus seems to be on transience.
I started this discourse with a discussion on some general notions.
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notion

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abstract notion
Our proof systematizes the above ideas by introducing an abstractnotion of walls and holes.
accepted notion
In conclusion, for over a decade now, and in a range of disciplines, researchers have been challenging our acceptednotion of landscapes and spatiality.
basic notion
For better or for worse, in this paper we depend on the reader's largely tacit understanding of this extremely basicnotion.
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