Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“You can’t yourself, but exterior influences can do it.”
- Source
- What Is Man?
- Date
- 1906
- Local voice
- Dialogue speaker · Old Man
Meaning of “You can’t yourself, but exterior influences can do…”
The Old Man claims that opinions can change, but attributes the change to new evidence, conversation, study, and other influences entering from outside the individual.
Where does it come from?
What Is Man?, Old Man replying to the Young Man’s question about changing an automatic opinion; this is dialogic determinism, not neutral cognitive science.
Why the local voice matters
What Is Man?, Old Man replying to the Young Man’s question about changing an automatic opinion; this is dialogic determinism, not neutral cognitive science.
