tacit agreement
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Examples
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.