anti-dogmatic

The problem, one suspects, is rather that most scientific disciplines escept, maybe, e.g. for English? are inherently anti-dogmatic - in fact, the scientific attitude is constitutively anti-dogmatic itself; you've got nothing to do in a science department if you have trouble letting go of your pet hypotheses in the face of counterevidence.

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The Quakers and Pietistic German sects were anti-dogmatic.

The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf

The rationalists were the first to use it, or rather to abuse it, for their anti-dogmatic purposes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The bond of union between them consists more in their anti-dogmatic tendency than in uniformity of belief.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

First was the principle of dogma; my battle was with liberalism -- and by liberalism I mean the anti-dogmatic principle and its developments.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

Nay, we have in the Bible itself at least two books which attempt an anti-dogmatic treatment of ethical problems.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

There may have been something too much of the attempt to credit Wolfram with anti-dogmatic views, and with a certain Protestant preference of simple repentance and amendment to the performance of stated rites and penances.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

On the one hand there is that growing body of people who, for whatever reason, tend to agnosticism, but desire to be convinced that agnosticism is respectable; they are eager for anti-dogmatic books, written by men of mark.

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

Elgar's book, supposing him to have been capable of writing it, would have resembled no other; it would have been, as he justly said, unique in its anti-dogmatic passion.

The Emancipated George Gissing 1880

“On the morning of the thirteenth of August, in the year 1704,” says a justly celebrated author, in illustration and defence of the anti-dogmatic principle in political and social matters,

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845