The phrase "argued the notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a debate or discussion about a specific idea or concept.
Example: "In her paper, she argued the notion of free will versus determinism, presenting compelling evidence for both sides."
Alternatives: "contended the idea of" or "debated the concept of".
The administration argued: The notion of 'chaplaincy' belongs to Christian chaplains, but also to psychologists.
As Cynthia Eagle Russett has argued, the notion of equilibrium that emerged partly from early 20th-century physiology constituted a critical tool in contemporary social theory, particularly in the work of the Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (1848 1923) and his followers at Harvard (Russett, 1966; Heyl, 1968).
Because, as the exhibition "Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School" argues, the notion of an American landscape brimming with sacred sites is as much a cultural invention as an accident of nature.
Others at the convention argued that the notion of a physical barrier on the border was not so outlandish.
Centuries later, Hugo Grotius (1583 1645) argued that the notion of moral wrongness is built into the notion of lying.
Postmodernism, I argued, challenges the notion of objective truth and rejects the possibility of a transcendent ethical perspective.
The team argued against the notion of someone's not only gaining access to their parking lots, but also using the space for a competing purpose.
The Justice Department argued that the notion of a religious freedom violation should be dismissed, but, disappointingly, Judge Kane declined to do so.
Franz Boas (1858-1942) He argued against the notion of western civilisation's superiority with his theory of relativism and gave his discipline its scientific methodology.
In that sense — Roddick as the inevitable underdog against the balletic Federer and the ferociously athletic Nadal — the broadcaster and former American top-10 player Jimmy Arias argued that the notion of Roddick as an underachiever was wrong.
But athletes like Richards-Ross have publicly argued that the notion of Olympic athletes being amateurs is antiquated and that the profits reaped from the Games have not trickled down to all athletes.
