The phrase "a particular idea of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific concept or notion that someone holds about a subject.
Example: "She has a particular idea of what success looks like, which differs from the traditional view."
Alternatives: "a specific notion of" or "a distinct concept of".
Like them, Adams was conscious that he was promoting a particular idea of wilderness — and a particular idea of photography.
For nationalists, advancing a particular idea of Scottishness through the campaign was an end in itself.
Through them, a particular idea of how society might be organized is coming into view.
Their distinguishing feature, apart from paying attention to what theatre people tell them, is a particular idea of time.
Or, rather, it was born from a particular idea of the theatre, rooted in the midcentury avant-garde.
His speeches before 2001 centered on a particular idea of personal liberty, private property, individual responsibility and minimal government.
What's special about utilitarianism is its claim to look at all these moralities from a vantage point outside any particular idea of the good.
He recalls, "It really gave me a quite particular idea of space, and an obsession with how the body moves within that space".
It comes, as Fuller describes, from a bunch of transhumanists with, shall we say, a very particular idea of what innovation is for – namely the technological improvement of the human condition.
As Jack Stilgoe wrote in his follow-up piece, at first glance the compromise position of the proactionary principle might suggest little to disagree with, but it does come from "a bunch of transhumanists with, shall we say, a very particular idea of what innovation is for".
A particular idea that hardly any of them believed in would not receive any investment – even if Tony Cohen happened to like the idea himself.
