# Open-mindedness | | **Open-mindedness** is receptiveness to new ideas. Open-mindedness relates to the way in which people approach the views and knowledge of others. Jason Baehr defines an open-minded person as one who "characteristically moves beyond or temporarily sets aside his own doxastic commitments in order to give a fair and impartial hearing to the intellectual opposition". Jack Kwong's definition sees open-mindedness as the "willingness to take a novel viewpoint seriously". | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Open-mindedness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mindedness) | [[I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue....]] [[Your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it...]] ## Related - [[Syncretism]] - [[Devil's advocate]] ## Sources [You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe)