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Certainty that outran its evidence and refused to notice.
means The habit of asserting opinions as established truths, without entertaining doubt or welcoming challenge.
from Traces back to Greek 'dogma' (an opinion, belief, or decree — from 'dokein,' to seem or to think), which passed into Latin and French before settling into English. The Greeks used 'dogma' fairly neutrally, for a formal philosophical tenet; the suspicious, closed-minded tinge of 'dogmatism' crept in later, as the word came to describe not just holding a belief but holding it the wrong way — loudly, rigidly, and past the point evidence could reach it.
- etymology
- from Greek dogma, meaning what seems true to me
- tell
- treats questions as attacks, not invitations
- irony
- often loudest on topics least examined
- cure
- a single well-timed counterexample, rarely accepted