Merriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture"

No ideology = no characteristic thinking.

If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.

Epic logic fail. You're affirming the consequent.

Just because A -> B, and we have B, doesn't mean we can conclude A.

Sure,

    Idealogy -> a manner of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture

But

    A manner of thinking characteristic of an individual -> idealogy

Doesn't follow from that!

Ideology is often used both in the sense of "A well organized philosophy shared by numerous people" and "one's own personal philosophy".

For instance, from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ideology, "the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual (...)"

Not everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him.

> Not everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him.

Not the OP, but this got me curious. How does one reason about things if you have no axioms (i.e. "body of beliefs")? Are you using some non-axiomatic systems of reasoning or just saying that some people don't reason at all ?

Sure, axioms are the basis of our abstract thinking. But simply beeing aware of that basis allows you to change your perspective/abstraction towards stuff.

You dont have just one body of beliefs, you try to have a qualified take on all of them. This is where your question revolves around. Whats "a body of beliefs"? And is it open or closed?

Its the difference between aproaching realitiy heuristically (and never reaching a final answer, thus constantly revising your thinking) and just picking one set of beliefs/axioms/ideology and call it holistic, like religion does.

Its the way of the sceptic and imho the only way we should think ... or at least be aware of the heuristic nature of thinking.

It's a definition, not a consequent. Definition is equality not if-then.

You'd be right if it was actually a definition. But it's not. It deals with the attributes of the thing rather than the thing's essence.

Like, the "definition" of car is 'a vehicle moving on wheels', but we can't from that conclude that all vehicles moving on wheels are cars.

I guess you have a more narrow definition of ideology!