Doctrine

Doctrine

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogue is the etymology of catechism.

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Famous quotes containing the word doctrine:

    “For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    “Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
    —Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)