Watson on Leiter on dogmatism

Jonathan Watson makes a similar point to Michael's regarding Brian Leiter's reference to "dogmatic appeals to authority":

Prof. Leiter ends his comments with this:

Of course, we know what intellectual discourse looked like when dogmatic invocations of the deity were thought to constitute an   argument.  And there is a reason those cultures and eras were not ones notable for their great number of intellectual insights and advances. 

To what cultures and eras is he referring? The medieval canonists used direct insight from the Bible (1150 or so) to produce such intellectual insights as a trial based on evidence and witnesses (overturning the trial by ordeal), maxims such as innocent until proven guilty (Johannes Monachus, d. 1313), and ideas that a criminal defendant has rights that cannot be transgressed by positive law. See here.  If there ever were an age using "dogmatic" invocation of the deity, that was it.  Prof. Leiter has used the "we know", and a rather dubious referral to "when dogmatic invocations of the deity were thought to constitute an argument" to set up a straw man.