Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An arrogantly assertive person.
- noun One who expresses or sets forth dogma.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is dogmatic or maintains a dogma or dogmas; a magisterial teacher; one who asserts positively doctrines or opinions unsupported by argument or evidence.
- noun [capitalized] One of a sect of ancient physicians founded by Hippocrates, and named in contradistinction to Empirics and Methodists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stubborn ,assertive ,opinionated person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
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Examples
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There is, I believe, a widespread loathing for the difficulties of much modernist and postmodernist writing, but out of fear of being called a dogmatist or worse, the loathing is concealed.
Difficulty 2009
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There is, I believe, a widespread loathing for the difficulties of much modernist and postmodernist writing, but out of fear of being called a dogmatist or worse, the loathing is concealed.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The dogmatist is the only one who claims to possess absolute certainty.
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You are a sheer dogmatist, and that's what makes it so marvellous.
Chapter 31 2010
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I am an anti-dogmatist, an anti-fundamentalist, yes.
Atheists and believers can get along Julian Baggini 2010
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If all the clowns who excoriate Keynes just because some ignorant dogmatist told them to, would actually go read the General Theory (which is exceptionally lucidly written), perhaps they might begin to understand why.
Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place” 2010
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That makes you a dogmatist, no different from those scientists who scoffed at continental drift, ball lightning, the germ theory of disease, and many other new ideas.
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence.
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You can call yourself a "pro-science" blogger and rationalist all you want, but the fact that you refuse to read certain scientific research just because it disagrees with your prior beliefs about the nature of the universe makes you just as much a dogmatist as a Christian fundamentalist who refuses to read about the evidence for evolution.
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nietzsche however was no dogmatist (except for some late metaphysical* notes on the "Will to Power" that he didn't publish).
Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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