Meaning of line of thought | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A way of thinking about a particular topic, concept, or problem, that follows a logical progression of reasoning or argument.
   figuratively
2. Way of thinking.
   figuratively

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Examples

“In the present⟳ chapter, I want⟳ to develop⟳ this line of thought in greater detail and at the same time clear up some difficulties that a number⟳ of my critics have⟳ claimed to find⟳ in my account of these matters.”

“Let⟳ me approach⟳ this line of thought a bit indirectly.”

“Similarly, to take⟳ twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work⟳ at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage⟳, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue⟳ an agenda, take⟳ a position, state a case.”

“"Even today there is a dictatorship of a narrow line of thought" which kills "people's freedom, their freedom of conscience," the Pope expressed in his April 10 daily Mass.”

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