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- Dictionarydog·ma·tism/ˈdôɡməˌtizəm/
noun
- 1. the tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others: "a culture of dogmatism and fanaticism"
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3 days ago · Dogma became the traditional term for truths believed to be indispensable to the Christian faith.
Jun 30, 2024 · Dogmatism is a set of ideas and beliefs that is conceived as true and that operates as the principle of a system. Dogmatists maintain that the mind has the capacity to reason and know the truth. Dogmatism is the opposite of skepticism, which questions the existence of a single truth.
6 days ago · a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions.
6 days ago · Roman Catholicism - Dogmas, Doctrines, Beliefs: The Roman Catholic Church in its formula of baptism still asks that the parents and godparents of infants to be baptized recite the Apostles’ Creed as a sign that they accept the basic doctrines of the church and will help their children grow in the Catholic faith.
3 days ago · Fideism holds that religious beliefs cannot be justified or evaluated based on evidence or reason and that faith alone is a sufficient basis for belief. This position has been criticized because it leads to dogmatism, irrationality, and a rejection of the importance of reason and evidence in understanding the world.
3 days ago · Like pragmatism, logical positivism provides a verification criterion of meaning that is supposed to rid us of nonsense metaphysics; however, logical positivism doesn't stress action as pragmatism does. The pragmatists rarely used their maxim of meaning to rule out all metaphysics as nonsense.
2 days ago · The word epistemology comes from the ancient Greek terms ἐπιστήμη (episteme, meaning knowledge or understanding) and λόγος (logos, meaning study of or reason), literally, the study of knowledge.
