Dogma vs Empirical - What's the difference?
dogma | empirical |
An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
Pertaining to or based on experience.
* H. Spencer
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
(philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
As a noun dogma
is .As an adjective empirical is
pertaining to or based on experience.dogma
English
(wikipedia dogma)Noun
(en-noun)- ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ''ex cathedra'' to make them part of the official faith.
Derived terms
* dogmatic * dogmatical * dogmatics * dogmatic theology * dogmatism * dogmatist * dogmatizeSee also
* axioma * creedAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----empirical
English
Adjective
(-)- The village carpenter lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.