Assertion of opinions as truths

Usage examples of dogmatism.

Lenin relaxed and reversed the dogmatism of Marx, Stalin made what he imagined to be Leninism into a new and stiffer dogmatism.

But slowly, in both the East and West, began to emerge rational philosophies, rational sciences, rational policies, rational religionssome of which indeed pointed beyond reason, but all of which depended on reason as a platform that could secure a common and mutual understanding for anyone, of any color, race, or creed, who cared to talk about it, share their evidence, discuss their reasons, and not simply shout dogmatisms and claim divine support.

For the most part, these egoic-rationality structures are already available for those individuals and social systems who can endure the transformation beyond their own provincial dogmatisms and embrace international recognition and mutual respect for each other's particular existence.

Gaposchkin attacked Velikovsky again in the June 1950 issue of Popular Astronomy, the essence of the argument being that his claims couldn't be true because they violated undemonstrable dogmatisms that antedated him and therefore took precedence.

So those who warn us of the "democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests" say that they are not the best judges.

I don't know whether such a belief today is best ascribed to ignorance of history, sclerotic dogmatism, unhealthy love of Malthus, or simple pigheadedness, but it is evidently a hardy perennial in human calculation.

Now Russ operants tend antiestablishment because "elitist phenom operancy" remains suspect under Marxist dogmatism.

He desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into artificial oyster beds.

That it was fear which drove the old man to disfigure his Critique of rational psychology is shown also by this, that his attacks on the sacred doctrines of the old dogmatism are far weaker, far more timid and superficial, than in the First Edition, and that, for the sake of peace, he mixed them up at once with anticipations which are out of place, nay, cannot as yet be understood, of the immortality of the soul, grounded on practical reason and represented as one of its postulates.

These detrimental consequences become still more palpable in the dogmatism involved in our idea of a supreme intelligence, and of the theological system of nature, erroneously based on it (physico-theology).