The phrase "assumes the notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or ideas that are taken for granted or accepted as a basis for further reasoning or argumentation.
Example: "The theory assumes the notion of a universal moral standard that applies to all cultures."
Alternatives: "takes for granted the idea of" or "presupposes the concept of".
For in doing that, the fictionalist assumes that the notion of conservativeness is nominalistically acceptable, and this is exactly the point in question.
As with Williams, it is significant that he assumes the engineering notion of adaptation rather than the weaker selection-product notion.
The notion of family dishonor is absent in part, one must assume, because the notion of family honor itself has become outdated.
(Assuming that the notion of nation-states survives, which seems likely, there aren't really any other contenders; China and India contain nearly half of humanity, and both are well on their way to economic superpower).
Assuming that the notion of a logical truth is understood, then the logical necessities are simply the logical truths, so that the logical possibilities are those things whose negations are not logical truths.
Category theory, where functions are components of categories (without a set theoretic reduction assumed), retains the notions of a domain and a codomain; moreover, every function has a unique domain and codomain.
Period". Kupchak has not been contacted by O'Neal's agent, Leonard Armato, and assumes O'Neal has dismissed the notion of a trade.
This comment was largely overlooked, so I can only assume that viewers found the notion of the second ever Latina actress to win an Emmy being presented as a token of successful ethnic diversity policy in television acceptable.
This requires that the Markov condition of Eq. 1 is assumed to extend to the notion of causality; given the effects on a variable of its immediate causes, that variable is independent of all earlier causes.
For a brief moment, I assume he's being sarcastic: the notion of "family entertainment" is so often sneered at.
