received opinion/wisdom etc• And as Mr Blunkett has found, academicfindings often run counter to received wisdom.• His entireperformance is magnificently unsettling and is no sense the Liszt Sonata of received wisdom.• These were repeateddaily by journalists until they became the received opinion, a sign of belonging to the crowd.• They became part of received wisdom, and to some extent, they remain so.• I am, in this regard, simply challenging received wisdom as to which is the chicken and which the egg.• Out of sheerperversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.• This is what received wisdom says.• There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification.