Does wide acceptance of an idea proves its validity?
God is the biggest example-wide acceptance; so many religious preachers preaching the same thing and now you see people questioning 'Who can Question the power of God!He's the Supreme commander of the world.'
Anybody speaking against should not ever read the Bible,Quoran and Gita.
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Yup,that's the case most times
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God is the biggest example-wide acceptance God isn't even a major contender as far as wide-acceptance proving validity. Do you accept that the world is round? Have you personally done the research and experiments? You have just accepted this as being true. There are many things in which acceptance proves validity. Those that are dumb enough accept things as being true. Those that smart enough have faith that they are right. Side: Yup,that's the case most times
Good examples. I was too lazy to cite any. But mob consensus definitely works more than 50% of the time, which I consider as the lower limit for "most". The US dollar works because people accept it has value without metallism. Planes fly. Most people do not understand fluid dynamics but will sit in a metal box hurtling through the sky. If everything required proof/comprehension for validity then technology would be useless. Side: Yup,that's the case most times
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This depend entirely upon how you define validity. If you define it strictly in a social sense (i.e. what is commonly accepted), then of course popular support would render a thing valid. I would suggest that that requires an exceedingly narrow conception of the term "validity" however, and that such a conception is of limited practical utility. Validity as understood in terms of logic, objectivity, and substantiation seems far more credible and those things have little to nothing to do with popular understanding. Side: Cannot agree.Here are reasons
No, not necessarily. A lot of people, (''shepeople''), will run with the flock and believe the bellowing of the guy with the loudest voice. Regularly the only thing which a large following of a particular subject indicates is that it's champion is a good and convincing orator. Think of the dictators in history. Hitler for instance, who was democratically voted into power, convinced the German people to follow him into hell, which is exactly where they ended up. Throughout history Christians willingly chose to be slaughtered by various barbaric methods rather than deny the teachings of one of the greatest orators of all time, Jesus Christ. Side: Cannot agree.Here are reasons
This can be an objective and subjective debate and validity depending upon the evidence for the idea, whose evidence, where and how the evidence is or was obtained. In the past it was widely accepted that the world was flat and sailing to far out of sight of land would mean falling off the edge. Was that idea valid.....? Side: Cannot agree.Here are reasons
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Well today we widely accept 'science and technology ' as the keywords to success but let the time come ,guys on the other side of the column would understand how farce these afore-said keywords are;though sounds bullish but let the time come. Side: Cannot agree.Here are reasons
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Think about the 16th and 17th century. Suspected witches were burned, drowned or hanged because they were thought to be evil or have relations with evil spirits. This idea was accepted- but that was probably because King James said so. Witches are evil in fiction, but if they existed in real life perhaps they would contradict this. Side: Cannot agree.Here are reasons
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