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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" -- Aristotle.
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What does this Aristotle quote mean?
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Being able to look at different view points, understand them as those who hold them do, but not personally feel that way.
Just my interpretation.
Just my interpretation.
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I think it means being able to understand an idea fully, consider the possibility it could be true, but nevertheless not have to believe it.
I suppose that is opposed against people who are so mentally narrowed by their beliefs, or thought patterns, that they can't seriously consider other beliefs as being possibly true.
I suppose that is opposed against people who are so mentally narrowed by their beliefs, or thought patterns, that they can't seriously consider other beliefs as being possibly true.
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No idea should be accepted without testing it.
No honest test can be done without a sincere attempt to understand the idea.
One can entertain an idea as a hypothesis and see where it leads.
Entertaining a hypothesis is different from accepting it.
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Some people are so locked within their own perspective that they find it impossible to consider an idea that they do not hold from a perspective that they don't hold. An educated man (or woman) is capable of considering the idea from some other perspective, reasoning from its premises, not one's own.
eudaimonia,
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eudaimonia,
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