traditional notion
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traditional
adjective
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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The perspective allows thetraditionalnotionof knowledge-based teaching and teacher education to be challenged by asking a philosophical question about teachers' being.
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It has nothing in common with thetraditionalnotionof government, and the specifier-head relation indeed seems to be a contribution of generative grammar.
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This general tendency is in shrill contrast to thetraditionalnotionthat music is a collective art.
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Without producer control and contingency, thetraditionalnotionof hunting as a family provisioning strategy is therefore suspect.
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Both elements of thetraditionalnotionof rules for regular and rote for irregulars have recently come under heavy fire.
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Indeed, thetraditionalnotionof finiteness, unsatisfactory as it may be, took only person-number inflection as criterial.
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If we wish to construe the eighteenth century as a music-historical period, we must abandon thetraditionalnotionthat it was bifurcated in the middle.
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However, the constituency-based approach has a limitation: thetraditionalnotionof constituent as a subsequence of words in the analysed sentence.
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Thetraditionalnotionof narrative as story was also re-envisioned and cast in terms of identity formation.
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As schematised, (33b) generalises thetraditionalnotionof a chain shift.
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The reference to 'healthy' music and expression of disgust with contemporary musical production reiterate atraditionalnotionof decline.
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Here, consistency includes thetraditionalnotionof subject reduction but also statements justifying the presence of annotations.
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Atraditionalnotionof identity is of something essential about ourselves, a fixed and stable core of 'self'.
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Young (2001) argues that thetraditionalnotionof economic rationality fails to capture the process by which agents form their preferences during negotiation.
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I understand how hard it is for an actor to do this, since ourtraditionalnotionof the actor's profession is connected with the delusion of its selfcentred nature.
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Thetraditionalnotionof analogy has been rightly criticized by many because it is difficult to see how any falsifiable prediction might be obtained with it.
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They also point out (2007) that it would be essentially lacking in foundation, as no suitable definition of similarity could exist without atraditionalnotionof identity.
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Thetraditionalnotionof art as mimesis has here collapsed into a notion of art as a self-contained system which mirrors the world, but which does not participate in it.
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It runs counter to thetraditionalnotionof a block grant, under which authorities were allowed to distribute money between services as they saw fit.
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We should not assume that the future threat will neatly conform to atraditionalnotionof how the armed forces should look.
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