When we hold on to personal biases or a predetermined rejection of other beliefs or viewpoints that disagree with our own, we don't get to see the full picture. To improve our overall understanding of a subject at hand, we must know to consider an opposing viewpoint and to look for what is true or what can be true. We don't have to accept those things that we do not know to be true, but we can consider the other ideas or perspectives presented to us by a different viewpoint in order to enhance our perspective of the larger picture which can in many cases result in the development of new ideas and even in finding new solutions to the problem at hand that haven't been considered or mentioned yet. By acquiring the ability to entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it, we can obtain additional information that we can then use to infer other things such as the causes for why such ideas and perspectives would arise, for example.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
(Aristotle, Greek philosopher)
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