What Is a Dogmatic Person
What is a dogmatic person? An excellent question, with a relatively easy answer. We have all encountered dogmatic people at some point in our lives. It's the kind of person you'll see at a party, who corners people into listening to their opinions. They voice their thoughts very strongly, and speak as though they're spouting off facts, whether they are or not. The Miriam-Webster dictionary suggests a synonym for "dogmatic" is "dictatorial."
Posted by clmankowski on 8/30/2009
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A "dogmatic" person has a (stubborn, opinionated, biased, arrogant) belief that he or she is right in his or her beliefs or opinions, and everyone else is wrong. ... Ideas about Spartan Meritocracy vs. Baroque Monarchy - from Daniel Harbour "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism".
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Spanish Translation, Synonyms, Definitions and Usage Examples of English Word 'dogmatic person' ... dogmatic person NounPlural: dogmatic persons ... dogmatic person; dogmatic school; dogmatic statement; dogmatic theology; dogmatical; dogmatically; dogmatics; dogmatise; dogmatism; dogmatist; dogmatize; dogmatizer; dogrose;
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Burns quotes Milton Friedman’s perceptive assessment of Rand as “an utterly intolerant and dogmatic person who did a great deal of good.” I think he was probably right.
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Even the most narrow-minded, emotional or dogmatic person occasionally uses reason to try to resolve moral conflicts - and the traditional approaches certainly provide plenty of contradictions and conflict: Communists reason about the practical contradictions in communal ownership and personal motivation.
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I promise – this is the absolutely last time I am opening the gates to Dogmatic. I’m putting the call out this one last time ‘cos I’m desperate for some ... Time wasters need not apply. If you’re serious, keen, a person of your word and can hit me with at least an article a week then please – talk to me!
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I've found that any reasonably intelligent person can learn/understand about 90% of almost any industry fairly quickly. ... There are a LOT of ninety percenters out there that don't even know what they don't know, although they will be quite dogmatic regarding those things that they think they know (but don't). Personally,
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Daithi O Gradaigh says he is proud to be an atheist (Letters, November 2) and takes a swipe at the Church. He further maintains that Richard Dawkins is not a dogmatic person. ... In fact, Prof Dawkins is so dogmatic that he thinks that religious belief is irrational.
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Atheists are just as dogmatic as theists, and the only reasonable person is an agnostic. Use the comment space below to present your rebuttal. Let's try and be clear and concise, as if this were to be used in a debate.
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I want to propose a theory for Christians to fellow regarding when and how to be dogmatic. Christians like me don’t like too much dogmatism - and don’t like it at all when it comes in What do I mean by being dogmatic? An absolutely dogmatic person is one who believes he/she is always correct and can never be wrong.
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