free thought
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7.2
- noun
- /fri θɔt/
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libre pensamiento
- They have been talking desultorily about belief in "a personal God," Stephen sidestepping Haines's direct question about whether he "stands for that" by observing that he is a "horrible example of free thought."
It stifles free thought and crushes new ideas.
- It stifles free thought and crushes new ideas.
- I'm saying that they have a criminalized free thought.
- It's we have free thought and free speech and free opinion, and they're stripping us of that.
- I I, I don't have the limited mindset to, to believe that we are the only fucking sentient beings on the planet that are capable of free thought.
- But then, and this is when and free thought goes wrong, my boy.
- And that stifles creativity and innovation and three, free thought.
Examples
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It stifles free thought and crushes new ideas.
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What we have learned from all this is that the folks over there do not care for free thought at all.
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What it has done to us, and I agree to your point, is it has limited our free thought, right.
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Liberty, free labor, free thought, free speech, free institutions and free mobility moving West.
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And then in the next paragraph, unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate.
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It's we have free thought and free speech and free opinion, and they're stripping us of that.
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Instead of praising free thought, it suppressed it.
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In a society that values free thought, people are free to explore different religious ideas based on reason.
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She appreciated the value of free thought, as it allowed her to challenge accepted norms and innovate.
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The government should promote free thought to foster creativity and critical thinking among its citizens.
Synonyms
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7.7
The belief that reason and logic give true knowledge more than feeling or experience
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7.5
To form opinions by using reason and evidence instead of following authority
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7.6
Forming opinions using reason and facts instead of following tradition or authority
Antonyms
How Rational
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'free thought' is compositionally built from 'free' (not constrained by rules or authority) + 'thought' (ideas or intellectual activity), so it denotes independent, unconstrained thinking. This relation is direct and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Free thought comes from the picture of a free mind and thought not controlled by leaders or old rules. So it means forming beliefs by reason and 'evidence' instead of simply accepting what leaders or tradition tell you.