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	Review of Literature: Dogmatism
		Dogmatism is a central concept used in personality research and first was developed to help explain the rise in power of the Nazi regime (Hassan, 1974).
		Because the content of the dogmatic cognitive belief system is often identified with far right, conservative and fascist views, early researchers failed to recognize that a dogmatic cognitive belief system also can play into far left, liberal and communist views (Hassan, 1974).
		These views, of course, are taking dogmatism to an extreme and are not indicative of the views held by the majority of CATG members.
	www.gate.net /~lsumpter/thesis_html/dogmatis.html (637 words)

	Dogmatism Clarified - Notes on Post-Dogmatist avant-garde art theory
		Post-Dogmatists worldwide realize that Dogmatism itself is the expression of the undiluted and pure truth of Reality as it exists in the Absolute Present and that it cannot, by its very nature, ever be expressed in its totality within the realm of human terms.
		The Dogmatist Manifesto, that is, the record which expresses the intentions purposes and guidelines for the expression of Dogmatism, is so majestically powerful and overwhelming in its scope that it was considered to be a grave danger to humanity as it would shake the very foundations of civilization as we know it.
		There is normally an inward resistance to the dismantling of a long held dogmatic structure due to the psychological and emotional upheaval caused by the confusion of re-orienting one's perspective without reliance on the dethroned dogma that one had previously identified with.
	www.postdogmatist.com /quarterly/pdq1-1-5.htm (1281 words)

	Pragmatism vs. Dogmatism - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henceforth, dogmatism is the thesis, and it's opposite is pragmatism the antithesis.
		Dogmatism is most commonly known as the tenacious belief in a religion or ideology.
		Hence, the thesis of dogmatism and the antithesis of pragmatism culminate in the synthesis of 'revisionism'.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=80245 (1505 words)

	THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A BALANCED DOGMATISM SCALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the next step, the concept of Dogmatism and its potential opposites were discussed with a group of third year students in a course on attitudes conducted at Macquarie University.
		The opposite of dogmatism was agreed to be "open-mindedness" and a total of fifty-nine items was written by the students to tap this concept.
		This finding was one we might have expected from the correlations between dogmatism and ideology already observed among students and can just as well be explained by saying that the students have accurate perceptions of what goes on in the world as by saying that the dogmatism items have a built-in right wing bias.
	jonjayray.tripod.com /baldog1.html (3322 words)

	Dogmatism in Theosophy - A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge
		Blavatsky before its delivery, or its contents were communicated to her, so that it had her assent, for she was present when it was delivered.
		If our effort is to succeed, we must avoid dogmatism in theosophy as much as in anything else, for the moment we dogmatise and insist on our construction of theosophy, that moment we lose sight of Universal Brotherhood and sow the seeds of future trouble.
		And as the great body of philosophy, science, and ethics offered by H. Blavatsky and her teachers has upon it the seal of research, of reasonableness, of antiquity, and of wisdom, it demands our first and best consideration in order that we may with fitness conclude upon its acceptation or rejection.
	www.blavatsky.net /theosophy/judge/articles/dogmatism-in-theosophy.htm (520 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Dogmatism: Peaceful vs. murderous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To some, dogmatism is often considered the great enemy of this society (evidenced horrifically by the dogmatism of the 9-11 suicide hijackers).
		The less dogmatically one holds a belief (it is held), the less likely he is to attempt to convert others to his belief, and the less likely he is to attack others who hold differing beliefs.
		The solution to the evils of murderous dogmatism is not to abandon dogmatism altogether, but to recover a steely dogmatism so dogmatic about its validity that it demands the peaceful exchange of the ideas that underlie it.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24620 (937 words)

	Glossary of Terms: Do
		Dogmatism denies the relativity of knowledge and the connection of knowledge to historically changing practice and social relations.
		Dogmatism couplies these denials with the practice of treating knowledge as something abstract, not to be touched by additional input or real world experience.
		Dogmatism is thinking which minimises the validity of doubt (See Scepticism), asserting the possibility of certain and unalterable knowledge of the world.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/terms/d/o.htm (513 words)

	Dogmatism quotes. Famous quotes about Dogmatism. Dogmatism quotes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
		The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
		Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
	www.chatna.com /theme/dogma.htm (121 words)

	Mieszkowski, 'Tragedy and the War of the Aesthetic' - _Schelling and Romanticism_ - Romantic Circles Praxis Series, ...
		While both criticism and dogmatism privilege the absolute synthesis of subject and object as their ultimate goal, this does not, as has often been assumed, amount to the empty hypostatization of a tautological statement of identity.
		Criticism and dogmatism unite, writes Schelling, in their demand for an "object of action," in their demand "for the action by which the absolute is realized," the free act by which subject and object, pure and practical reason, are made one ("Philosophical Letters" 190-91).
		This does not mean that criticism’s demand for absolute subjectivity or dogmatism’s demand for objective identity is a self-realizing performance, a circular schema in which the absolute act of synthesizing subject and object proves retrospectively to have been identical with the demand for it.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/schelling/mieszkowski/mieszkowski.html (4054 words)

	Creationist and Evolutionist
		"Dogmatism is on the march again in America," according to one evolutionist in a public debate with a creationist.
		Dogmatism can be measured by several different instruments, including the California F Scale (F is for Fascism).
		The Dogmatism Scale was administered to 130 students enrolled in one of six different sections of a course, "Psychology of Human Relations", taught by the author at Madison Area Technical College during the fall of 1981.
	www.creationism.org /csshs/v04n3p15.htm (785 words)

	Masonic Dogmatism and Traditionalism (by Harun Yahya) - Media Monitors Network
		Dogmatism means to blindly and insistently support a view, for whose validity there is no proof, because of a certain psychological predisposition.
		A dogmatic person does not investigate or reconsider something he believes in whether or not there is any proof for it.
		Rather, dogmatism is a quality of those who refuse to consider these things, and reject God while continuing to defend the view that the universe exists by its own accord and that living things came to be by chance.
	www.mediamonitors.net /harunyahya54.html (803 words)

	DOGMATISM IN RELATION TO SUB-TYPES OF CONSERVATISM
		It is well-known that results obtained with students cannot often be generalized to the population at large, and the relation between conservatism in different fields is known to be quite variable (Kerr, 1955; Anderson and Western, 1967).
		The original BD (Balanced Dogmatism -- Ray, 1970) scale was normed on students only, and it was desired to produce a second form suitable for general population use.
		Dogmatism is highly positively related to social conservatism but negatively (though insignificantly) related to economic conservatism.
	jonjayray.0catch.com /dogcon.html (3492 words)

	DOGMATISM, FALLIBILISM AND TRUTH
		As dogmatism and fallibilism differ in their implications regarding the notions of truth and falsity, and Polanyi is adopting both, the intriguing question is whether the prima facie discrepancy between dogmatism and fallibilism has any serious consequences for his account of truth.
		Dogmatic people assert their opinions in authoritative or even arrogant ways, whereas having a dogmatic attitude is commonly held to be one of holding to one's beliefs in a `come what may' fashion.
		Dogmatic acceptance disregards ``future counter-evidence of what is believed'', whereas full acceptance ``is compatible with an openness to criticism''.[12] That does not mean, of course, that full acceptance of a belief should lead to consciously testing it in order to check whether any counter-evidence might be found.
	www.kfki.hu /chemonet/polanyi/9912/sanders.html (5370 words)

	EFFECT OF AGE ON DOGMATIC TRAITS
		The purpose of this study was to determine if becoming more dogmatic is really a result of aging, we wanted to see if people’s beliefs and opinions really do become more concrete or set in stone as they grow older.
		The higher the score on the scale, the more dogmatic the participant is. After the data were collected, the responses from the participants who are forty-six and older were compared to the responses of the participants who are forty-five and younger to see if there was a difference in dogmatic traits.
		An independent-samples t test was calculated comparing the mean dogmatism score of subjects who were young (forty-five and younger) to the mean score of subjects who were older (forty-six and older).
	clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu /manuscripts/478.asp (1861 words)

	Dogmatism, by Alan Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dogmatism has its genesis in that unhappy attitude of mind which mistakes partial for completed truth, and the dim light of dawn for the radiant glory of the midday sun.
		Modern Romanism and modern Protestantism have this in common that both alike are Creedal rather than Biblical, and are dogmatic as to their own particular interpretations of Biblical facts, rather than the facts them selves in all their splendid sufficiencies.
		True dogmatism will be intensely Biblical in substance and terminology; using Biblical words according to Biblical usage; rejecting other terms however synonymous they may appear to be; respecting the silences of the Word; and drawing a clear-cut line of demarcation between what God says and man thinks.
	www.godstruthfortoday.org /Library/burns/dogmatism.htm (1290 words)

	Philosophy Talk: The Blog: On the Absence of Dogmatism
		By that I mean that within certain limits, we should not view ourselves as entitled to hold another to a moral principle that she would not herself endorse (upon certain ideal conditions that I won't bother with here).
		I do think that religious dogmatism in the service of any political purpose is morally unacceptable, unless the principles that form the basis of the relevant religious outlook are derivable from secular principles.
		To commit to a norm "dogmatically" is to commit to it, as it were, on behalf of all rational beings, but without regarding it as subject to "ratification" by the rational others on behalf of whom you purport to commit to that norm.
	philosophytalk.typepad.com /blog/2005/03/on_the_absence_.html (1995 words)

	David Frawley - Hinduism : The Eternal Tradition - Idolatary Dogmatism : The Veils Of Maya (Page16) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dogmatic beliefs use the specter of idolatry to condemn those who think differently.
		But idolatry and dogmatism are actually the same thing, the limitation of truth to a particular form, person, judgement or idea.
		Unless we transcend the idolatry of dogmatism and exclusivism in religion, it is not spirituality we are following but some divisive creed which breeds conflict and can never lead us to peace.
	www.hindubooks.org /david_frawley/hinduism/idolatary_dogmatism/page16.htm (355 words)

	Peter Suber, "Classical Skepticism"
		Stupidity or intellectual dishonesty, the skeptic's charge against the dogmatic person of action may be balanced by the dogmatist's counter-charge, for example in the words of Edmund Burke, that all that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
		Skeptics allow themselves to be guided by (1) the forces of nature, and (2) the feelings of the affections, both of which are beyond their control, as well as by (3) the traditions of laws and customs in their locale, and by (4) the accumulated practical wisdom on how best to accomplish certain ends.
		More important than this reminder is her challenge to all dogmatism —philosophical, religious, scientific, political, and the ordinary dogmatism of social life and common sense.
	www.earlham.edu /suber/writing/skept.htm (15610 words)

	Lit Review Paper
		Thus, dogmatism is a broad disposition that may affect many sorts of reactions to persuasive communication.
		Dogmatism research may be organized according to studies examining persuasive effects and studies exploring source credibility interactions.
		Since dogmatism is a relationship among beliefs arranged in a hierarchy, it may be that "need for cognition" may explain much of the impact of dogmatism.
	commfaculty.fullerton.edu /jreinard/lit_review_paper.htm (2268 words)

	Dogmatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, the dogmatic Marxists of the 30's in Soviet Union rebuked Chayanov's theory as anti-agriculture collectivization.
		Wrongful and dogmatist policy-making, which was done in the name of Marxism and backed by proletariat dictatorship, suffocated independent scientific thinking and truth-seeking through brutal means such as killings and exiles.
		However, as biologist Pavlov put it, science and dogmatism are incompatible, while science and free critique are synonymous.
	www.oycf.org /Perspectives/2_110299/dogmatism.htm (1401 words)

	Dr. Clare W. Graves
		Rokeach points out that the Dogmatism Scale should serve to measure general authoritarianism and general intolerance, because of the way in which open and closed systems have been defined.
		Thus, the Dogmatism Scale allows one to separate and operationally describe behavior associated with levels 3 and 4 on the one hand, and levels 5 and 6 on the other.
		To separate levels 3 from 4 and 5 and 6, the 66 items of the Dogmatism Scale questionnaire were interspersed with the 21 items of the Gough-Sanford Rigidity Scale.
	www.clarewgraves.com /articles_content/1965_GHL/1965_GHL8.html (344 words)

	Dogmatism
		Dogmatism — pushing one doctrine as the only possible approach at a topic.
		A writer becomes dogmatic when he attempts to persuade us by asserting or assuming that his particular position is the only acceptable conclusion possible.
		They imply that the truth is self-evident and obvious for all to see, so we had better open our eyes (notice that this shifts the burden of proof onto the audience).
	ksumail.kennesaw.edu /~shagin/logfal-pbc-dogmatism.htm (419 words)

	Dogmatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Watts, Clay: Preparing for End Times Evaluation of Bible prophecy of the last days, including a comparison of views and studies of New Testament passages.
		Kalama Sutta This discourse of the Buddha has been described as "the Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry." It counters the decrees of dogmatism and blind faith with a vigorous call for free investigation, exhorting one to not rely on what others say in wha
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Dogmatism".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Dogmatism.html (169 words)

	PES Yearbook: 1998: Gert Biesta, The Right to Philosophy of Education
		The operation is dogmatic, in that the criterion itself is kept out of reach of the critical operation and is applied to this state of affairs "from the outside." Critical dogmatism, so we could say, derives its right to be critical from the truth of the criterion.
		In a wider sense, the critical potential of the idea of performative contradiction is used as a form of internal critique, where the main critical work consists of a confrontation of a position or argument with its (often implicit) conditions of possibility.
		I have shown that the existence of critical dogmatism depends on the fact that the critical criterion is itself kept out of reach of the critical operation.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/1998/biesta.html (4182 words)

	ACQUIESCENCE AND DOGMATISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clearly, then, the Dogmatism items are acquiescence affected and need to be used in conjunction with reversed items in order to control for any effects this may have.
		The fact that increased higher education causes the Dogmatism items to be responded to more and more as they should be, does, of course, have a corollary: The Dogmatism items are less and less valid the less educated are the respondents to whom they are applied.
		This is also what emerged from Ray's (1979c) study of balanced Dogmatism scales applied to a general population sample so it is revealed that even the balanced Dogmatism scale is a very limited measure.
	jonjayray.netfirms.com /acq.html (3081 words)

	Is the dogmatism scale irreversible? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A review of various attempts to produce balanced versions of the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale ('D' scale) shows that the highest positive-negative correlation obtained on a general population sample was -0.32.
		In general, then, the indicated conclusion from the results so far would appear to be that the 'D' Scale should be used in future only with extreme caution.
		As some qualification to this rather severe conclusion, however, it could perhaps be argued that the validation available for the 'D' Scale as a measure of dogmatism is impressive and that although the characteristic pos.-neg.
	fire.prohosting.com /jonjayra/dogirr.html (2587 words)

	ALIENATION, DOGMATISM AND ACQUIESCENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On a random sample of 118 Australians, dogmatism and alienation were found not to correlate when acquiescence was controlled for.
		Sexton (1983) finds a relationship between dogmatism and alienation, but neglects the problem of acquiescence with the one-way-worded Dogmatism scale (Ray, 1979).
		Because the anti-Dogmatic items were written and pretested to be as opposite as possible to the original items, this low correlation between them strongly suggests a powerful tendency toward meaningless acquiescence in the data.
	www.geocities.com /jonjayray/alidog.html (329 words)

	PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE VERSUS DOGMATISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I contend that the real battle is between the great majority of chiropractors who unknowingly allow dogmatism to guide the practice of chiropractic and the extremely rare variety of chiropractor who's practice of chiropractic is guided by philosophy and science.
		Dogmatism is defined as "unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion," and the "arrogant assertion of opinions as truths" (2).
		This quote illustrates the common dogmatic double-talk of ACA members who, in one breath, castigate the so-called straight chiropractic philosophy which often implies that Innate Intelligence can heal anything and every-thing, and in the next breath, confidently imply that chiropractic care can cure or benefit numerous unmentioned or unstudied ailments.
	www.chiro.org /LINKS/ABSTRACTS/Science_vs_dogmatism.shtml (6911 words)

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