READY-MADES

Sometimes you are offered ready-made opinions or judgements.

These have been made by one other person or they may be the opinions that seem to be held by a lot of people.

There are times when you have to use such ready-made opinions because it is impossible to find out everything for yourself.

There is nothing wrong with a ready-made opinion, provided you use it as a help (RM-H) to your own thinking and not as a substitute (RM-S) for your thinking.

Ready-mades as help (RM-H): You use the ready-made opinion as a help to your own thinking. It may provide a starting point, an ingredient or