The phrase "a simple notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an idea, concept, or belief that is not complex or difficult to understand. For example, "I have a simple notion of what success looks like: having a job that I love and a home to call my own."
Microbes defy a simple notion of individuality.
It's a simple notion, of course, but also most difficult to achieve.
This is a long way from a simple notion of identity, of depiction.
Information technology has forced us to rethink a simple notion of privacy into more complex theories that recognize both the benefits and risks of communicating all manner of information.
I suggest that without the additional resources offered by the concept of adaptation Khalidi's concept of 'information' would collapse into a simple notion of covariance, and his analysis of innateness would be a version of the canalisation analysis discussed in the next section.
We specifically focus on a simple notion of success in terms of having highly cited papers and, similar to [20], assume that a paper is successful if five years after publication it has more citations than 90% of all papers published in the same year.
And while he's read about the anxiety roiling the financial world, he's counting on a simple notion to get his family of five through an economic storm.
Romantics often retained the encyclopaedic ambitions of their predecessors, but faith in any simple notion of progress was shaken.
Some dissident journalist associations triggered great enthusiasm; some involved a kind of self-conscious and self-interested exchange of professional favors or were straightforwardly instrumental in nature; while yet others led to a distinct personal hostility on the part of certain human rights activists that challenges any simple notion of how those associations worked.
However, preference for particular discourses probably influenced selection of, and selection into friendship/occupational groups, which undermines any simple notion of causation.
Sporting Memories Network (SMN) began with a simple notion – could a love of sport transcend the ravages of dementia?
