logic-tight

logic-tight
adj.
Describes an opinion or stance that is impervious to logical argument.
Example Citation:
"[New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani] has been lulled by a white majority into what psychologists call the logic-tight compartment that says: 'I am right and no other opinion can enter here."
— Bill Tatum, The New York Amsterdam News
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