(March 21, 2018 at 8:12 pm)Khemikal Wrote: A list of dogma asserted would still be asserted dogma even if it managed, or happened... to get something right.
The position that something actually does or does not make sense is as anti-dogmatic as it gets. Without accepting the fact that some things don't make sense it's not even possible to draw the distinction necessary to make sense of anything.
My position is that some positions objectively are certainly correct for reasons. If you throw away the fact that X is X and those who say otherwise are confused, you're aiding dogma rather than battling against it.
Again, you confuse certainty with dogma. All dogma involves certainty but not all certainty involves dogma. What makes something dogmatic is about the process that a person becomes certain of something... not whether they are certain or not.
If I'm certain that a square has 4 sides because that's what a square is so to say it doesn't literally makes no sense, that's not the same as someone being certain that the moon is made of cheese based on nothing but non-sequiturs and delusions.
