Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2014 January 20

= January 20 =

Opposite of denialism
Denialism means you refuse to accept some popular fact in a way that makes people think you are crazy. What would be the opposite of this, something like accepting a popular fact so strongly that it is mental? KuhmoMan (talk) 12:30, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Gullibility? Delusion? Deor (talk) 13:01, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Conformity - the act of matching attitudes, beliefs and behaviors to group norms. Gandalf61 (talk) 13:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * See also: Sheeple ~:71.20.250.51 (talk) 17:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Dogmatism  KägeTorä - (影虎)  ( TALK )  17:43, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Wow, nobody mentioned Ayn Rand, I'm impressed -- 19:33, 20 January 2014‎ 88.104.19.169
 * She is not an "-ism".  KägeTorä - (影虎)  ( TALK )  19:53, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Denialism means refusing to accept a well-established fact, not just a "popular" fact. Accepting a well-established fact is called being reasonable.  How strongly do you accept that 2+2=4?  I don't think it's possible to accept it so strongly as to be mental.  --Bowlhover (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)