The phrase "absolute notion" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe an idea or concept that is seen as absolute and unchangeable. For example, "The belief in a higher power is an absolute notion for many people".
This obsession with an absolute notion of citizenship is precisely the manifesto's chief intellectual weakness.
This puzzled me, until I realised that what they have in mind is connected to an absolute notion of time, preceding steadily without regard to anything that moves or changes in the world.
It is for this reason that Gödel proposed the notion of ordinal definability as a candidate for an "absolute" notion of definability.
For example, Sieg has pointed out (2006) that Gödel's identification of the general notion of formal system with Turing machines is problematic, resting as it does on an absolute notion of computable function.
Cognitive barriers include: spatial horizon (state/local centred, absolute notion of space); issue horizon (sectoral silos of regulatory responsibility); dynamic horizon (trend continuity); and, ethical horizon (policymaking as rational project, bounded by invariable outputs).
Although at least one influential (erstwhile) realist has conceded the power of Everett's argument, proposing an antirealist notion of assumption-relative truth (Howell (2010)) in place of the realist absolute notion he championed earlier (Howell (1979)), other realists are likely to think that Everett underestimates the conceptual resources available to them.
In the positive state, the mind stops looking for causes of phenomena, and limits itself strictly to laws governing them; likewise, absolute notions are replaced by relative ones.
I had this absolute belief in the US Constitution, and a naive - but nonetheless clear - notion of right and wrong.
Notions which remain fixed as we move from model to model in the sense of "fixed" that we discussed in the last section have an "absolute" significance; notions which vary as we move from model to model have only a "relative" significance.
Yet even there, hedge funds that exploit, say, valuation discrepancies among different classes of company securities are hard to compare, so varied are the possible strategies.Moreover, one of the few common characteristics of hedge funds is their aristocratic focus on "absolute" returns: the notion that you can make money even if there is a bear market in stocks or bonds.
Kjellsson et al. remind us that all studies of health inequalities are implicitly or explicitly based on either an absolute or relative notion of equality, and that studies involving bounded variables also involve an implicit or explicit value judgment about whether it is inequalities in attainment (e.g., health) that matter or inequalities in shortfalls (e.g., ill health).
