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n. A belief or set of beliefs that is widely accepted, especially one which may be questionable on close examination.
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Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.
Conventional wisdom mey refer to:
- Conventional wisdom, certain ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public
- Conventional Wisdom, a song by Built to Spill from their 2006 album You in Reverse
- " My Conventional Wisdom", an episode of Scrubs.
Usage examples of "conventional wisdom".
An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
Heroes who try to explain the world in terms of matter and energy may have arisen many times in many cultures, only to be obliterated by the priests and philosophers in charge of the conventional wisdom, as the Ionian approach was almost wholly lost after the time of Plato and Aristotle.
A major problem in the contemporary (political) Third World is that the educated classes tend to be the children of the wealthy, with a vested interest in the status quo, and are unaccustomed either to working with their hands or to challenging conventional wisdom.
You're skeptical about conventional wisdom, but attracted to unorthodox ideas.
The conventional wisdom about TV news is that the image is everything and if that is the case then this is a big win for Ordo, which looks like the victim of jackbooted thugs.
The conventional wisdom that promotions come fast in wartime actually held true for the combat branches - but not necessarily for intelligence and other restricted-line types, who werent permitted to get the all-important tickets of command in space punched.
The conventional wisdom that promotions come fast in wartime actually held true for the combat branches -- but not necessarily for intelligence and other restricted-line types, who weren't permitted to get the all-important tickets of command in space punched.
One threat after another had materialized out of a galaxy which the conventional wisdom had never expected to hold so many species at essentially the same technological level in the same cosmological eyeblink of time.
It is conventional wisdom to assert that the age of the entrepreneur is dead, and that in his place there now stand only organization men or bureaucrats.