1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 Received Opinion
Explanation: Common, widely-used expression
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Prevailing theory, Ruling theory
| Guy Bray United States Local time: 00:07 Native speaker of: English
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Asker: I have a problem with all these answers (btw thanks to all); this is that the term appears to be uniquely French in as much as it refers, indeed to a 'prevaling concensus' but this concensus is US-Anglo-Saxon driven; it also includes the notion of globalisation , and this is why none of the responses seem to satisfy me completely
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9 hrs confidence: conventional thought
Explanation: another possibility
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Asker: have a problem with all these answers (btw thanks to all); this is that the term appears to be uniquely French in as much as it refers, indeed to a 'prevaling concensus' but this concensus is US-Anglo-Saxon driven; it also includes the notion of globalisation , and this is why none of the responses seem to satisfy me completely
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11 hrs confidence: the "one-track" mindset
Explanation: Hello, They mean that there is this pervasive one-track mind with regard to this issue. I believe that "pensée" is capitalized in order to show it as a trend (like a philosophical term). I'm not sure I'd capitalize anything in English, but I might put "one-track" in quotations. I hope this helps.
| MatthewLaSon Local time: 03:07 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: have a problem with all these answers (btw thanks to all); this is that the term appears to be uniquely French in as much as it refers, indeed to a 'prevaling concensus' but this concensus is US-Anglo-Saxon driven; it also includes the notion of globalisation , and this is why none of the responses seem to satisfy me completely
Asker: Can you put in 'hegemonic thought ' as an answer Matthew; I think you've found the right one
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1 day 2 hrs confidence: prevailing consensus
Explanation: or ruling consensus or dominant consensus
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Asker: have a problem with all these answers (btw thanks to all); this is that the term appears to be uniquely French in as much as it refers, indeed to a 'prevaling concensus' but this concensus is US-Anglo-Saxon driven; it also includes the notion of globalisation , and this is why none of the responses seem to satisfy me completely
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1 day 4 hrs confidence:
2 days 4 hrs confidence: accepted wisdom
Explanation: in light of your reservations, this might convey the slant you seek to the nostion of CONSENSUS interesting debate here; Patterico’s Pontifications » Accepted WisdomFiled under: Accepted Wisdom, Environment — Justin Levine @ 5:10 pm. [posted by Justin Levine]. In case you still haven’t heard the news, global warming ... patterico.com/category/accepted-wisdom/ - 86k - Cached - Similar pages More results from patterico.com »
| ormiston Local time: 09:07 Native speaker of: English
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| Reference: Single Thought
Reference information: It comes as no surprise that the French state nobility has streamlined public opinion over the years into an ideology that strengthens its own legitimacy. The French still love to debate, of course. And they may at times rebel against the state ideology, routinely referred to as **"la pensée unique" (the "single thought")**. But some dogmas are just beyond discussion, and some questions are off limits. Such is the case with anti-Americanism, a very convenient tool that brings together right-wing nationalists, in the Gaullist or Vichy tradition, with http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00... Only the development of open, inclusive ways of thought that acknowledge the diverse worldviews of peoples, their multiple forms of expression, of knowledge, of creative and artistic production, will lead to the necessary break from single thought (pensée unique), that is imposed through the supremacy of the values of a dominant minority assuming them as universal. http://alainet.org/publica/cmrx/en/pluralistic.html The single thought (La pensée unique : in French) It is the one which does not integrate the difference of sexes, the one which integrates only a purely imaginary version of it. It doesn't deal with Symbolic system. It gives formulas like: "A dog is a dog" or "A" ="A". It means identification with the others. http://www.lituraterre.org/Illiteracy-Another_approach_of_il... We will reflect upon the wider reaching effects on both source and target languages and cultures of translation becoming simply part of the process of localization of "la pensée unique" (single thought). http://www.iti-conference.org.uk/itic21/sessions/invasion_of...
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