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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    There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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