which article?

0 Do you 01i00really02i00 need help with this, Milky? If not, why are you posting here?0-

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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Do you 11i10really12i10 need help with this, Milky? If not, why are you posting here?12br
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10I'm asking which posters here would choose and why. Is that not interesting to you?0-

0 Well, yes. It is slightly interesting. Unfortunately it would also seem to be an unreasonably taxing burdon upon the people who come here to help people who genuinely need help with English. 02br
00If you will pardon me the compliment, it doesn't seem that you need any help with your English. 0-

0 It depends on the context.0-

0 I'd say "...introduced a notion that..."02br
00Can't explain why though... 0-

0<If you will pardon me the compliment, it doesn't seem that you need any help with your English. >02br
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00Thanks, but I assure you I do.0-

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01cite10Selecter12cite10It depends on the context.12br
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10And...?0-

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01cite10Milky12cite10<If you will pardon me the compliment, it doesn't seem that you need any help with your English. >12br
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10Thanks, but I assure you I do.12br
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0 I got it. Generally, two contexts are possible:02br
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001. Descriptive:02br
00«... introduced a (a property of the notion is given) notion that was then forgotten when Einstein created his special relativity theory.»02br
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002. Restrictive:02br
00«... introduced the (the notion is defined) notion that aether was (partly) ent

0Hi,02br
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00I think that your sentence that is termed decriptive probably needs 'a' instead of 'the'.02br
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00But the one you termed restrictive is not restrictive, I think, and it can use 'a' too like this:02br
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00" ... introduced 01u00a new notion02u00 that aether was (partly) entrained ?? by the eart