passive thinking

is a kind of bland thinking where thoughts are provided by the world as ready-made and have no need of creative human intervention.

quote: 'a thinking that is conditioned by the facts of the world as they are perceived by men, and which needs no creative effort on man's part. This kind of thinking is admirably equipped to grasp the world of minerals, but a more active, living thinking is needed in order to understand the world of the living, the world of the plants and animals, and above all of man' (Easton 1980: 270)

passive thinking, n.Definitions

passive thinking