"connection of ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the logical links between two or more propositions or ideas. For example, "The author's argument relies on the strong connection of ideas between democracy and justice."
Because cities are "natural" centers of exchange, of movement, of connection — of ideas as much as capital.
What is the "order and connection of ideas" that Spinoza speaks of – and how are we to know this order?
According to Spinoza, the true order and connection of ideas is known not through experience and habit, but through reason.
True reasoning depends upon necessary or eternal truths, such as those of logic, numbers, geometry, which establish an indubitable connection of ideas and unfailing consequences.
And for this reason, there is an exact correspondence between them: "The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things".
In the Principes de la nature et de la grâce fondés en raison (1714; "Principles of Nature and of Grace Founded in Reason, Leibniziz stated a maxim that could fairly represent the entire school: True reasoning depends upon necessary or eternal truths, such as those of logic, numbers, geometry, which establish an indubitable connection of ideas and unfailing consequences.
However, the connection of this idea with symbiosis and with the origin of eukaryotes is much weaker; I would perhaps recommend the authors to unlink both.
Norman Kretzmann holds that Locke's views, while not original had a powerful influence on the Enlightenment view of the connection of words and ideas.
In most cases finding a specific meaning or message seems unimportant; it's likely, in any event, that a finished dance bears only a loose connection to the set of ideas that a choreographer began with.
The connection of such wide-ranging ideas to design, as Im put it, comes from the idea that globalization necessarily involves an import and an export.
Hume argues that the connection can't involve relations of ideas.
