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conventional wisdom

noun

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The beliefs or judgments that are widely accepted about a subject.

The experiment encouraged the class to question conventional wisdom about the design.

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The school's conventional wisdom held that customers would accept only perfectly symmetrical patterns, a judgment many teachers repeated without fresh examination.

From Learning a Craft Without Copying a Life.

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