- Accepted belief - Body of teachings - dogma - Medico missed a train heading east in principle - Teachings collectively - Teaching; instruction. - That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true,
and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any
tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the
doctrine of chances.
- An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt;
uncertainty. - The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly
known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism;
universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of
confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical
investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or
assertion of certain principles. - A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of
the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being,
perfections, or truth of God.