It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.<\/p>\n
— Aristotle<\/p>\n
This is, I think, a very important point which we tend to forget in our debates both here on Blogit and elsewhere in society. Only the truly educated person can confront an alien thought and consider its merits without either blindly accepting it or condemning it. Taking the time to consider a thought does not change the intrinsic merit of the idea; however, consideration of an idea may often lead to acceptance, at least in part. Perhaps this is why we resist consideration of unfamiliar ideas: if we ponder an idea, we may find that we must change our own notions, perhaps throwing out half a dozen erroneous ideas which we have held dear because the new idea shows the old to be false. It is a daunting and frightening thing to evaluate and discard pet ideas. Only the truly educated may be capable of doing so.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle This is, I think, a very important point which we tend to forget in our debates both here on Blogit and elsewhere in society. Only the truly educated person can confront an alien thought and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,7],"tags":[55,52,56,54,53],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-philosophy","tag-argument","tag-aristotle","tag-debate","tag-discussion","tag-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}