The phrase "alter ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the modification or change of thoughts, concepts, or beliefs.
Example: "The workshop aimed to alter ideas about traditional teaching methods and encourage innovative approaches."
Alternatives: "change perspectives" or "modify concepts".
The designer is Ian MacNeil, an Olivier and Tony award recipient of his own and one whose career-making set for "An Inspector Calls" nearly 20 years ago has altered ideas of that play's domesticity for keeps.
The book explores how blacks "positioned themselves and were posed by others" in order to advance, question or alter prevailing ideas about race.
In addition, he confuses my claim that the subhuman condition is thought of as unalterable with the very different — and quite implausible — notion that people never alter their ideas about the subhuman condition.
Dr. Melia and other scientists said the findings might also have some surprises in store for theorists, who may have to alter some ideas about how black holes tear matter from their surroundings and swallow it with the irresistible force of gravity.
The results, published in the 7 March issue of Science, alter some ideas about the planet's polar regions.
This is the claim (3) that ideas are passive and causally inert, i.e., they can neither produce nor alter another idea (Treatise, I, 25).
The revival of "Sylvia" will not alter our idea of who Ashton was as an artist.
As long as it doesn't alter an idea, then I'm very happy to cooperate with the musicians, because we are trying to represent their music.
Further, we can alter an idea's structure to make it a better representation of an object, as we can alter a map to improve it.
By withholding some of the ugly truth about infidelity, we're allowing unmarried or uncommitted people to alter their idea of commitment and have a more fluid concept of marriage or monogamous relationships.
