The phrase "alternative notions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different ideas, concepts, or perspectives that differ from the mainstream or traditional views.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, several alternative notions have emerged that challenge the conventional understanding of the issue."
Alternatives: "different concepts" or "varied ideas".
Proponents of the semantic conception of theories explored alternative notions of reduction.
The guidelines also take a firm stand that children must learn about evolution, the central organizing idea in the biological sciences for more than a century, but one that has rallied state lawmakers and some religious conservatives to insist that alternative notions like intelligent design be taught.
Alternative notions of communalism and anti-materialism coincided with a glut of empty and abandoned buildings, to create a series of vast, often infamous, squats, especially in the capital.
With the light fading, the alternative notion of "nowhere" sounds vaguely promising.
An alternative notion — that Jobs was an emotional child his whole life — is something the readers have to come to themselves, by reading between the lines.
It was in a cottage on the family estate at Boulge Hall that he translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and conjured an alternative notion of the east – not wintry storms and bleakness but camels, desert, a convivial jug of wine.
Meanwhile, the alternative notion that VR might actually be a niche — rather than mainstream — tech doesn't seem too far-fetched at all.
If this objection succeeds, it still leaves open the possibility that an alternative notion of natural information, such as a causal notion, could be used (as discussed in section 3.5).
Anne Eaton proposes an alternative notion of "situatedness," importing into aesthetics a version of feminist standpoint theory to draw attention both to audience positions of appreciation and to the perspectives evoked in works of art (Eaton 2009).
Callon et al. advance the alternative notion of 'measured action' or measured decision-making, where "you do not decide [an outcome], you take measures" that are based on inclusive processes that involve both experts and the public, but that ultimately remain open-ended so as to incorporate new knowledge, discoveries, and claims.
This alternative notion of attention connects to well-known work by Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Monica Rodriguez at Columbia University on delay of gratification.
