📚 noun • entry_id 47403
conventional wisdom
Meanings (ES + gloss)
opinión recibida • sabiduría convencional • sabiduría popular • sabiduría recibida
A belief or set of beliefs that is widely accepted, especially one which may be questionable on close examination.
It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refe…
So many Americans accept “zero population growth” as a new canon of conventional wisdom that it comes as a surprise to hear the notion disputed.
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