dogmatic belief
Rigid doctrinal certainty
A dogmatic belief is one held rigidly and asserted as unquestionable truth, regardless of evidence or argument.
The phrase emphasizes the inflexibility of the belief rather than its content—any conviction becomes dogmatic when its holder refuses to examine or defend it: His dogmatic belief in the free market prevented any discussion of regulation.
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- creedStatement of belief
- articles of faithFoundational beliefs of doctrine
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- convictionFirmly held belief
moral certainty · tenet · party line · rigid · inflexible · set in stone · certainty · absolute · unwavering · fundamentalist · zealot · ideology · scripture · infallible · holy writ · unyielding · stubborn · dyed in the wool
- closed-mindednessclosed-mindedness, close-mindedness, narrow-mindedness, inflexibility, rigidity
dogmatic beliefopen-mindedness
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
freethinking · flexible thinking · mental flexibility · intellectual curiosity · working hypothesis
dogmatic beliefcritical thinking
Objective evaluation of information
scientific reasoning · skeptical inquiry · empiricism · logical analysis · inductive reasoning
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