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dogmatist

[ dawg-muh-tist, dog- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who asserts their opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
a person who lays down dogmas; one who prescribes doctrines.

dogmatist

/ ˈdɒɡmətɪst /

First recorded in 1535–45; from Medieval Latin dogmatista, equivalent to dogmat(izāre) “to dogmatize ” + -ista -ist

To the modern dogmatist, these positions seem sceptical and pernicious.

Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence.

He is often a dogmatist, but this fault is not peculiar to him, he shares it with the rest of mankind.

You have a perfect right to do so; but in that case you are the dogmatist.

And the last great dogmatist, Leibniz, was the one who practised this method of uncritical assumption to the utmost extent.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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