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To: koan who wrote (480718)	10/4/2021 3:29:02 PM
From: cosmicforce	4 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita Doo JohnM Kip S Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540836

>>When a sociology professor teaches something are they being dogmatic? Yes - if they have very little or no evidence for that opinion. My mom's psych professor told her in 1948 that "dogs don't think". Was that "dogmatic"? Yes. You often state things as absolutes and when you "defend" them - you just make up new opinions that support the original opinion and state that those opinions are also true. Most topics and positions are on the continuum of utter rubbish to solid gold - most human thought only uses the middle 2/3s of that range. Even when I agree with part of what you say - it is so sweeping that it comes off as "God's Truth". Maybe you don't mean it that way but your repetition on a number of principles (e.g. "smartness of women" and "higher IQs") are not necessarily true - Find a resource that "debunks Flynn" and we'll discuss that. Dogmatic has a definition: dog·mat·ic /dôg'madik/ adjective adjective: dogmatic inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.