dogmatist en · NOUN
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- A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
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One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience.
Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
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nl dogmaticus (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person) · fr dogmatiste (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person) · hu dogmatikus (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person) · sv rättshaverist (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person) · ko 원칙주의자 (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person) · de Dogmatiker (stubborn, assertive, opinionated person)