school of thought
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3.9
- noun
- /skuːl əv θɔt/
- Formal
:
corriente de pensamiento
- There have been two main schools of thought to explain the growth limitation.
- two schools of thought
- different schools of thought
- neoclassical school of thought
And so there's different schools of thought on training attention, for instance.
- And so there's different schools of thought on training attention, for instance.
- I'm in the I'm in the school of thought that I would just walk past it.
- Like great controversial question and it depends on which school of thought or camp you belong in.
- In those two, let's just call it lineages or broadly speaking, schools of thought.
- Or we come from different schools of thought.
- The first thing we need to talk about is that there are two schools of thought about what is a normal blood pressure.
- The question is what does it say about a school of thought when it's afraid to hear counter arguments?
- You know, you if you have a rich dad and a poor dad, you have an understanding of two schools of thought, right?
- Was that sort of the prior school of thought of defend your cut?
- Are you fans of certain screen writing teachers school of thought?
Examples
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In the strategic debate over Afghanistan, two opposing schools of thought have emerged.
Academic text (2011) -
There are three basic schools of thought, and I'll touch on each of them now.
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There were two schools of thought within that now old organization.
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The first thing we need to talk about is that there are two schools of thought about what is a normal blood pressure.
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There are two different schools of thought on that subject.
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Theories on our emotional development are divided into two schools of thought...
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The concept in education has evolved in accordance with these three schools of thought.
Academic text (2011) -
And this new school of thought about justice continues to challenge people to look past their biases and consider what a fair society might truly look like.
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Up until now, Marxism has been the predominant school of thought in social sciences in Mexico.
Academic text (1994) -
In modern psychology, there are various schools of thought that influence therapeutic practices.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
A personal opinion or belief about something
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4.4
A set of ideas that guide how a person or group acts
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6.0
A set of beliefs taught and held by a group, for example a religion or political party
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3.8
A set of ideas and values that shape how people think and act
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8.6
A set of ideas that guides a group's beliefs and actions
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4.3
A particular way of thinking about something that a person or group follows
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7.7
A set of ideas and beliefs that a group of thinkers accept
A set of ideas about life, knowledge, or right and wrong that people accept and follow
Antonyms
How Influential
100
7.4
- Formal
24
3.9
∞
3.2
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4.1
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3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a particular way of thinking' is directly and compositionally derived from 'school' (a group or tradition) + 'thought' (ideas), connected by the genitive/of pattern. This noun-of-noun construction is common across languages (e.g. Spanish 'escuela de pensamiento'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
School of thought comes from the picture of a school, a group or place where people learn, where everyone follows the same thought or ideas. So today it means a group of people who share 'a certain way of thinking'.