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Full Idea
What everyone believes is so.
Gist of Idea
If everyone believes it, it is true
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1173a01)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.314
A Reaction
Would you think me terribly unfashionable if I agreed with this? Huge numbers of people can be wrong, but if 'everyone' believes something it seems crazy to go against it.
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