Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dogmatic.
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Examples
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I think a certain dogmaticism on the part of American labour is very regrettable; you can blame management all you want, but doesn’t change the fact that American labour is, essentially, pretty dumb and can’t really see the future.
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They are willingly blind to their own dogmaticism and if given the chance they would attempt to eradicate any idea that calls their supposed “truth” into question.
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As long as there is open scientific/scholarly competition in the field, dogmaticism doesn't do damage to the advance of science/scholarship.
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*Anti-dogmaticism : the systematic denial of any kind of Church held belief, any kind of conviction that is helf to be sacred.
The Last Acceptable Prejudice de Brantigny........................ 2008
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But it is my impression that Austrians when the charge of dogmaticism, or ignorance is raised are always accussed of practices that only the worst in the tradition practice.
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That means the scientists will have STRONG opinions, and too often that is confused with dogmaticism.
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*Anti-dogmaticism : the systematic denial of any kind of Church held belief, any kind of conviction that is helf to be sacred.
Archive 2008-05-18 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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However, system-level dogmaticism must be rejected at all times because that will kill scientific progress.
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In this sense, Chomsky's strategy echoes the rigid dogmaticism of devout communists.
Cambodia: Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman: Averaging Wrong Answers 2008
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In fact, as I have said here before, dogmaticism is never really a problem at the individual level, it is really a problem at the level of the discipline.
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