There is a dominant doctrine that says if you are the head of an organisation you fall on your sword when something goes wrong, and I think that is right.
Questions thus arise about the relation of the school to what Damascius in his History calls 'the dominant doctrine'.
It was probably during this crisis that Ammonius is represented by Damascius as making an agreement or deal: "Ammonius, who was wickedly greedy and saw everything in terms of what profit he could make, concluded an agreement with the overseer of the dominant doctrine" (Damascius 118B Athanassiadi, with her Introduction, 30 1 and n. 37).
At first glance it is puzzling that, after decades of questioning and technical warnings, and after twenty years since the inception of ICMJE recommendation to avoid NHST, they continue being applied ritualistically and mindlessly as the dominant doctrine.
In this sense, Neurath's exposition of his own social and economic views was from the beginning of his career inseparable from an element of meta-theoretical or philosophical discussion and motivation (elicited by the opposition from the more dominant, orthodox doctrines and their proponents).
The other prong of the revisionist thesis was the attack on the critical doctrine, dominant in the nineteen-fifties and into the nineteen-sixties, that the conditions of a painting's production and reception are irrelevant to its significance as art.
The moralistic view of art is still, on the whole, the unarticulated view of art held by the masses, particularly when they are under the sway of a dominant religious or political doctrine.
Before long, Thomas's thinking on this point became the dominant authority in Christian doctrine.
Is Proclus after all then not so original, but only an excellent teacher and wonderful systematizer of the new Platonic doctrines which became dominant in the school since Iamblichus on?
The institutions of a decent society may be organized around a single comprehensive doctrine, such as a dominant religion.
