If you ask me, it takes a kind of cosmic slice to make dogmatic statements of that kind.

It was a dogmatic statement," he said, "and I should have let that sleeping dogma lie.

This may not be anything to worry about, but could be disastrous if Helen steps out with a dogmatic statement which reveals her ignorance.

"Similarly, dogmatic statements, while reflecting at times the culture of the period in which they were defined, formulate an unchanging and ultimate truth."

Whatever the theory, Dr. Weinberg said, "people shouldn't make dogmatic statements about it."

The word is one traditionally used for definitions or other dogmatic statements of exceptional weight.

The dogmatic statement is expressed near the end of the document:

"Only removing the statement, 'Evolution is a scientific fact,' from the introduction does not change the many, many dogmatic statements throughout the document," he said.

According to Kant, a dogmatic statement would be a statement that reason accepts as true even though it goes beyond the bounds of experience.

Nobody in a position of responsibility in the European Union should make such dogmatic statements in public.