The part of the sentence "understanding of the notion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the knowledge or idea that someone has about a particular concept, idea, or topic. For example, "John had a thorough understanding of the notion of quantum mechanics."
He would unquestionably bring a more global understanding of the notion of civilisation than Lord Clark.
I don't have a clear understanding of the notion of genes.
But a department chair is an interesting kind of boss, because it's not clear that academics have an understanding of the notion of "boss".
This collection of essays by one of the most prominent and internationally respected philosophers of action theory is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.
The course is primarily theoretical and does not require programming, but it does require understanding of the notion of a mathematical proof, some knowledge of elementary discrete mathematics, and mathematical problem-solving skills.
The pre-requisites for these lectures are an understanding and comfort with fractions and irrational numbers and an understanding of the notion of infinity, for example, that there are infinitely many natural numbers.
There also seems to be a disconnect, or at least some major disparity in understanding, on the notion of who God is.
For a more advanced understanding of the notions and results, we refer to Remark 6 below.
Doubtless our understanding of the notions of causality and causal relevance depends importantly on our grasp of causal explanations.
However my understanding of nuance, the notion of shades, the absence of a clear defining line between right and wrong in real life, which is central to my work, is something I learned not just from Achebe, but also from Mariama Bâ, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin and pirated Indian films watched in small spaces in Accra.
Given some principles that justify norms in this sense, the interpreter might add to the set certain further norms such as those implied by the explicit communication that constitutes the original norms, if doing so would give better effect to the principles and thereby improve principled consistency (on the current understanding of that notion) in the way government treats its citizens.
