Word please

[rarll]

is there a word for someone, who, against all evidence, believes that the opposite is true. I.E. Someone who believes the earth is flat, even though all evidence proves it is round.

[brionon]

Christian.

[ladyalex]

Contrary ?

[c1]

4 words:
Pain In The Ar*e!

[Schutzengel]

Denier.

[Ankou]

fallibilist ?

[tamborine]

ignoramous

[craft1948]

thought that applied to stocking density....

[Canary42]

advocatus diaboli (or Devil's advocate) - but they don't actually believe it, just argue it.

[waterboatman]

Tw@t comes to mind

[heathfield]

Schutzengel has it with 'denier'.

[rarll]

Jacket image of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary

Needed the word, but when I looked in Oxford English Dictionary -
denier

/denyr/

� noun a unit by which the fineness of yarn is measured, equal to the weight in grams of 9,000 metres of the yarn.

� ORIGIN originally denoting a French small coin: from Latin denarius.

[heathfield]

Try a different dictionary and scroll down for all the definitions.

[Ankou]

ditto.

http://www.reference.com/search?q=Fallibilist

[LFCFan5]

lol, i agree wiv waterboatman

[dr b]

Actually, "flat-earther" has evolved into a word meaning "a person who clings to an idea or theory that has long been proved wrong."

[dr b]

http://dictionary.infoplease.com/flat-earther

(forgot to include that!)

[Amilcar]

gainsayer?