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Dogmatic assertion
Answer for the clue "Dogmatic assertion ", 10 letters:
ipse dixit
Word definitions for ipse dixit in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, literally "he (the master) said it," translation of Greek autos epha , phrase used by disciples of Pythagoras when quoting their master.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unsupported dogmatic assertion [syn: ipsedixitism ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ipse dixit ( Latin for "he himself said it") is a term used to identify and describe a sort of arbitrary dogmatic statement, which the speaker expects the listener to accept as valid. The fallacy of defending a proposition by baldly asserting that it is ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) An unproved proposition that is accepted solely on the authority of someone who is known to have asserted it; a dogmatic statement; a dictum. 2 An authority who makes such an assertion.
Usage examples of ipse dixit.
But when I can't even smell girl and do smell germicides-well, ipse dixit and Q.
She read a movie review full of vicious ipse dixit criticism of the director and screenwriter, questioning their very right to create, and then turned to a woman columnist's equally vitriolic attack on a novelist, none of it genuine criticism, merely venom, and she threw the paper in a trash can.