Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase—"climate of opinion." The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the climate of opinion in which they are sustained.


The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)

Carl L. Becker Quotes

Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase—climate of opinion. The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command...

Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase—climate of opinion. The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command...

Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase—climate of opinion. The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command...

Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase—climate of opinion. The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command...