Crossword clues for ipse dixit
ipse dixit
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.
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.
WordNet
n. an unsupported dogmatic assertion [syn: ipsedixitism]
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 "just how it is" distorts the argument by opting out of it entirely: the claimant declares an issue to be intrinsic, and not changeable.
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.