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Dogmatic assertion
Answer for the clue "Dogmatic assertion ", 10 letters:
ipse dixit
Word definitions for ipse dixit in dictionaries
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.
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 ...
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.