uncritical acceptance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuncriticalandacceptance
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uncritical
adjective
uk/ʌnˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/ʌnˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
accepting something too easily, because of being unwilling or unable ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk/əkˈsep.təns/us/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofuncriticalandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In contrast, cultural relativism - theuncriticalacceptanceof any culture's views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one's own culture.
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The text is marred by the author'suncriticalacceptanceof the accounts and attitudes of his nineteenth-century sources.
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It makes for an ambiguous, easy relationship with truth, fosteringuncriticalacceptancealong with ' ' deliberate and conscious distortions and misrepresentations ' ' of the past (5).
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First, theuncriticalacceptanceand perpetuation of conventional analyses can lead to results which, while theoretically elegant, have little or no bearing on linguistic reality.
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In this way we avoid theuncriticalacceptanceof ideas, leaving assumptions unexamined, the fall into dogma and resistance to the possibility of transformation.
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If we wrongfully identify tolerance withuncriticalacceptanceleading to accommodation, we risk moral relativism.
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However, these appraisals may still be overly positive because of reviewers'uncriticalacceptanceof f laws in the design, analysis, and reporting of the results of such trials.
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Hewitt's extensive bibliography is testimony to the remarkably wide currency of these concepts and categories and the extent ofuncriticalacceptanceand repetition.
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Whatever the view of the police—presumably they have been consulted—certainly at that stage it was very different from anuncriticalacceptanceof dipped headlamps.
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For too long, we have had anuncriticalacceptancethat it is somehow good.
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However, he will find nouncriticalacceptanceof the sort of argument that we have heard this afternoon.
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There is anuncriticalacceptanceof the omnipotence and, indeed, the wisdom of bankers.
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Such portrayals, founded uponuncriticalacceptanceof the narratives within early modern sources, are contrary to the evidence preserved in contemporary sources.
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These have resulted in anuncriticalacceptanceof an overly competitive grow-or-die philosophy.
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Some commentators regard the diary as a warning againstuncriticalacceptanceof information from sources whose motives and reliability can not be checked.
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He traveled widely and wrote analyses on false recognition, intimidation by prison inmates,uncriticalacceptanceof expert testimony, suggestibility and emotionalism in jurors and psychological errors by judges.
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