Sentence examples for Dogmatic thinking from inspiring English sources

If the people themselves are hidebound and dogmatic, thinking, for example, that social arrangements must follow tradition, or revert to principles laid down in an ancient religious text, they will not be prepared to take the untoward consequences of current habits, or policies following ancient principles, as evidence disconfirming their claim to practical success.

Dogmatic thinking doesn't belong in medicine.

"I don't like dogmatic thinking, and the heads tend to think in a dogmatic way," he says.

I was floored by this kind of dogmatic thinking.

There were successes and failures here too, and similar problems of dogmatic thinking.

I realize that's currently a sign of weakness in certain political circles, but I see it as a weakness in the dogmatic thinking of extremely selfish people.

According to Soros, the dogmatic mode of thinking that characterised closed societies made it impossible for them to accommodate to the changing vicissitudes of history.

"He or she needs to maintain a great openness to new experience and an abundance of curiosity -- for life, for people, for the richness of nature and whatnot". If we don't, if we close ourselves to the world and stop challenging ourselves, that can lead to dogmatic and inflexible thinking.

They celebrate self-indulgence and expense where a more dogmatic environmentalism demands looking outward and thinking small, making do with less.

Her book, however, is not a guide to thinking about climate change, nor does it offer a dogmatic approach to the problems.

For with respect to each problem addressed (the finitude vs. the infinitude of the world, freedom vs. causality, etc)., one can either adopt a broadly "dogmatic" (Platonic) or broadly "empiricist" (Epicurean) approach, each reflecting a different way of thinking the totality of conditions (See A471 2/B499 500).