The phrase "a notion of structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts related to organization, framework, or arrangement in various contexts, such as literature, architecture, or theoretical discussions.
Example: "In her analysis, she presented a notion of structure that challenged traditional views of narrative form."
Alternatives: "an idea of framework" or "a concept of organization".
Jonathan Bain (2013) argues that critics of radical ontic structural realism have implicitly relied on a set-theoretic notion of structure and that a category theoretic formulation of ontic structural realism is useful in explicating the structure of physical theories, in particular, general relativity.
It is equally obvious that if one has at hand a notion of model-theoretic validity for a formalized language which is based on a minimally reasonable notion of structure, then all logical truths (of that language) will be model-theoretically valid.
But this cannot be the notion of structure that structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics has in mind.
As a first step toward a notion of quantum data structures, we introduce a typing system for reflecting entanglement and separability.
The most compelling differences in matrilineal affinity were found between group grave and single grave burials in one cluster of the cemetery and evoke a notion of intra-community power structure shaped by matrilineally-ascribed group membership.
It is arguable that this is the purest structuralism possible, for the notion of structure employed refers to the higher-order properties of a theory, those that are only expressible in purely formal terms.
These examples nicely illustrates how category theory treats the notion of structure in a uniform manner.
For the ante rem structuralist, the notion of structure is a primitive concept, which cannot be defined in other more basic terms.
On the theoretical level, cultural anthropology has often used concepts developed in the field of linguistics: in studying society as a system of communication, in defining the notion of structure, and in analyzing the way in which man organizes and classifies his whole experience of the world.
