received wisdom
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreceivedandwisdom
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received
adjective[before noun]
uk/rɪˈsiːvd/us/rɪˈsiːvd/
generally accepted as being right or correct because it is based ...
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wisdom
noun[U]
uk/ˈwɪz.dəm/us/ˈwɪz.dəm/
the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions ...
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(Definition ofreceivedandwisdomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreceived wisdom
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Thereceivedwisdomis that the arts make a significant contribution to this aim.
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He calls into question thereceivedwisdomthat competition enhances welfare.
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Instead, at its best, it may lead us to ask different questions, to adopt different techniques, and to continue to question thereceivedwisdomof more conventional research.
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In contrast, clinical lore has become a dimension ofreceivedwisdomthrough which research knowledge is filtered.
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However, thereceivedwisdomabout such categories is that their function spaces are topologically hard to understand.
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We should always be sceptical ofreceivedwisdom, or in its rather more dangerous guise common sense, which is often little more than 'naturalised' ideology.
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The transcripts also challenge much of thereceivedwisdomabout civil rights and race relations during this period.
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Indeed, the role of women is a focus in this book, and the author challenges thereceivedwisdomof 'separate spheres'.
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This, at least, is thereceivedwisdom.
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Thereceivedwisdomseems to be that egalitarian considerations are not really applicable to problems in population ethics, at least not to problems where we decide between different populations.
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In treating the eighteenth century the author provides a competent rendition of the 'receivedwisdom' on this repertory, that is to say, traditional scholarly opinion.
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But his suggestion of the mortuary, it is important to note, does not run againstreceivedwisdom.
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Thereceivedwisdomis that older people play a fairly inactive part in these processes, that others take the lead.
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This third space displaces the histories that constitute it, and sets up new structures of authority, new political initiatives, which are inadequately understood throughreceivedwisdom.
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For example, the word ogbó refers to philosophy, that is, "receivedwisdom".
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These positions may be at odds withreceivedwisdom, but one gets the impression that the authors would not have it any other way.
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From this perceived 'wholeness' - and with a hint of nostalgia and sentiment - emanates a kind of beauty which, in itself, then becomes a kind ofreceivedwisdomfor future generations.
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According to thereceivedwisdom, it consists in the universal human yearning to be well thought of and, perhaps even more pressingly, to avoid being thought of badly.
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She is skeptical: she evaluates criticallyreceivedwisdomand the findings of others.
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