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date: '2024-03-05'
description: also known as window of discourse
id: Overton Window
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title: Overton Window
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> A window into the ideas that frames ideas that people are prepared to entertain. All ideas outside the window are not seriously considered.

More prominent in the land of policy-making, but also apply to general idea [[library/Phenomenology of Perception|perception]].

To move the window requires people, ideas outside of the window to shift what is considered “generally” acceptable by the public.