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believed in being a hedgehog

Arabic translation: أراد أن يصبح من القنافذ بشدة

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English term or phrase:believed in being a hedgehog
Arabic translation:أراد أن يصبح من القنافذ بشدة
Entered by: Samah Al Moghrabi

20:18 Oct 23, 2020
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English term or phrase: believed in being a hedgehog
In 1951, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote The Hedgehog
and the Fox. The book divided the great thinkers of the world
into hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs believed in having a big
unifying idea that explained everything. They have a single
lens through which they see the world. They can explain
everything through their ideology. Foxes, on the other hand,
pursue many different ideas. Scattered. Often unrelated. Even
contradictory. They have no single ideology or theory on how
things work. Berlin told us that, “The fox knows many things,
but the hedgehog knows one big thing”.
Dante was a hedgehog. Plato, Pascal, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Proust – all hedgehogs. Foxes include Shakespeare,
Aristotle, Montaigne and Joyce. Tolstoy was, according to
Berlin, a fox by nature, but believed in being a hedgehog.

ما الترجمة الأنسب؟ يؤمن بقدرة القنافذ؟ أم يؤمن بكونه قنفذاً؟ أم شيء آخر؟
Samah Al Moghrabi
أراد أن يصبح من القنافذ بشدة
Explanation:
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ABDESSAMAD BINAOUI
Morocco
Local time: 09:47
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Summary of answers provided
5يؤمن بكونه قنفذ
ahmed badawy
4أراد أن يصبح من القنافذ بشدة
ABDESSAMAD BINAOUI
4لكنه آمن كذلك بقيمة/بأهمية القنافذ
Samar Sami
3اعتبر نفسه من فئة القنافذ/صنف نفسه كشخص ينتمي لفئة القنافذ
Morano El-Kholy


  

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أراد أن يصبح من القنافذ بشدة


Explanation:
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ABDESSAMAD BINAOUI
Morocco
Local time: 09:47
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
يؤمن بكونه قنفذ


Explanation:
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ahmed badawy
Egypt
Local time: 11:47
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لكنه آمن كذلك بقيمة/بأهمية القنافذ


Explanation:
Tolstoy may have been a fox by nature, however, he also believed that a hedgehog is equally important and valuable.

Samar Sami
Egypt
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
اعتبر نفسه من فئة القنافذ/صنف نفسه كشخص ينتمي لفئة القنافذ


Explanation:
والله اعلم

Morano El-Kholy
Egypt
Local time: 11:47
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 71
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