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SweetFreedom Posted 11 years ago
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Either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself?
Does "either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself" mean "either as being the opinion that is received by public/others) or as being the opinion that is agreeable to the understanding itself"?
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things to support and agree with itself.
Francis Bacon (1620)
Context:
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things to support and agree with itself.
Francis Bacon (1620)
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SweetFreedom The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things to support and agree with itself. In casual, modern English: Once a person establishes an opinion that he believes in (no matter whether he got that opinion because everybody else has it or whether he got it because it makes him feel good), that person will find all sorts of evidence around him that he feels he can use to prove that his opinion is the right one. Said very briefly, it's hard to change people's beliefs.
- SweetFreedom The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things to support and agree with itself.
- In casual, modern English: Once a person establishes an opinion that he believes in (no matter whether he got that opinion because everybody else has it or whether he got it because it makes him feel good), that person will find all sorts of evidence around him that he feels he can use to prove that his opinion is the right one.
- Said very briefly, it's hard to change people's beliefs.
- CJ
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SweetFreedomThe human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things to support and agree with itself.In casual, modern English:
Once a person establishes an opinion that he believes in (no matter whether he got that opinion because everybody else has it or whe
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