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dogmatism|ˈdɒgmətɪz(ə)m|
[a. F. dogmatisme (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ‘the teaching, or preaching of new doctrine, the producing of a new sect’ (Cotgr.), ad. med.L. dogmatism-us ‘dissertatio, docendi ars’ (Du Cange), a. Gr. type *δογµατισµός, f. δόγµα, δογµατ- dogma: see -ism. Used by Florio in translating from French, but not in Blount, Phillips, Kersey, Bailey, Ash; used by Dr. Johnson 1751, but not given in his Dictionary.]
1. Positive assertion of dogma or opinion; dogmatizing; positiveness in the assertion of opinion.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 281 A very foolish answer: to which..Dogmatisme arriveth. 1627Minsheu Ductor Ling. (ed. 2), Dogmatisme, the teaching of a new Sect or opinion. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 106 ⁋3 Dogmatism has delighted in the gradual advances of his authority. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. xvii. 201 A small share of natural science..generally accompanies conceit and dogmatism. 1825Macaulay Milton Ess. (1854) 19/1 Dogmatism on points the most mysterious. 1843Prescott Mexico App. (1864) 473 Where there is most doubt, there is often the most dogmatism.
2. With pl.: A dogmatic tenet or system. rare.
1803Edin. Rev. I. 265 The theory of transcendentalism may therefore be a better dogmatism than others. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 15 (1822) I. 114 The ethereal dogmatisms of Plotinus and Porphyry. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 39 These dogmatisms are not attributed to Buddha.
3. Philos. A system of philosophy based upon principles dictated by reasoning alone, and not relying upon experience; opposed to scepticism. More generally, a way of thinking based upon principles which have not been tested by reflection.
1858Whewell Hist. Sci. Ideas II. 292 (L.) The skepticism of the uniformitarian is of force only so long as it is employed against the dogmatism of the catastrophist. 1858Mansel Bampton Lect. i. (ed. 4) 3 Theological Dogmatism is..an application of reason to the support and defence of preexisting statements of Scripture. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant I. 2 What Kant meant we may best understand if we consider how he opposes Criticism to two other forms of philosophy, Dogmatism and Scepticism. 1881Adamson Fichte vi. 126 Do we explain experience as the product of the non-Ego, we have the system which may be called Dogmatism; do we explain the whole as springing from the Ego, we have Idealism. |