The phrase "a general notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an overarching idea or concept that provides a basic understanding of a subject.
Example: "In order to grasp the complexities of the topic, one must first have a general notion of its fundamental principles."
Alternatives: "a broad understanding of" or "a basic idea of".
3 However, this hypothesis generates a rather puzzling picture which seems implausible as a general notion of the relationship between goal- and preference-attributions.
Primary Response is thus able to provide "a general notion of system health" as well as spotting break-ins, says Dr Hofmeyr.
This low-key film, which uses a Brian Eno track for ambience during filler shots of prison common areas, gets across a general notion of music as universal solace.
The notion of teaching creativity was practically and theoretically connected to a general notion of "discursivity".
Thus the inverse shadowing is a general notion of topological stability.
This is not to deny that medieval thinkers had a general notion of meaning.
In fact, what Balzin proves in [1] is even more general than Theorem 7.17: instead of our notion of a good prefibration, he introduces a more general notion of a semifibration over a category with a factorization system.
Piccinini and Scarantino (2010) advance a highly general notion of computation which they dub generic computation with that consequence.
From the mid-1980s, the concept of Heimat (a word meaning both "the homeland" and a more general notion of cultural identity) has been central to the ideology of the FPÖ, although its application has slightly changed with time.
In this note, we consider a more general notion of occurrence and we give an extension of the top-down algorithm of Hoffmann and O'Donnell for this notion.
Dr. Paige contends that the TAAS and Stanford tests could not be compared because the Texas test gauges mastery of the Texas curriculum while the Stanford test measures a more general notion of what children should know in a given grade.
