free-thinking

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free-thinking (comparative more free-thinking, superlative most free-thinking)

  1. Having opinions that are contrary to dogma or the positions of authority.
    • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
      His background was academic, though not directly in mathematics or physics. His father, Frank, was an expert in tropical diseases and his mother, Isobel (nee Walker), was a free-thinking radical who had a great influence on him.
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