ipse dixit
ipsedixitism

The courts will look beyond the ipse dixit of the parties and interpret the words as they stand.

Ipse dixit is made specific in American law.

The subjective satisfaction or mere ipse dixit of the executive body is insufficient.

In logic, ipse dixit is known as the bare assertion fallacy.

Ipse dixit is a Latin phrase which means "He, himself, said it".

Ipse dixit denies that an issue is debatable.

Ipse dixit is a sort of arbitrary dogmatism.

In Alice in Wonderland, the problem of ipse dixit is explained by example.

Ipse dixit is used to identify and describe a dogmatic statement which the speaker expects the listener to accept as valid.

"I move that the meeting adjourn ipse dixit," said Sam Davis, bringing out the latter phrase with considerable emphasis.

The theory of ipse dixit involves that an unproven statement that the speaker claims is true because it was uttered by "an authority" on the subject.

Cicero referred to debates among the students of Pythagoras, who applied the phrase Ipse dixit (He, himself, said it.)

This term ipse dixit has been used in modern legal and administrative decisions, generally as a criticism of arguments based solely upon the authority of a given organization.

In 1997, the US Supreme Court recognized the problem of "opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of an expert".

Hahnemann's law of similars is an ipse dixit axiom, in other words an unproven assertion made by Hahnemann, and not a true law of nature.

But when I can't even smell girl and do smell germicides-well, ipse dixit and Q.E.D. Minerva!"

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886), the Supreme Court held, ipse dixit, in which it considered the Fourteenth Amendment applicable to corporations.

Above him is inscribed a quote from Psalm 33 reading "Ipse dixit, et facta sunt: ipse mandāvit, et creāta sunt"-For he spake and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

In her determination to promote herself into a genius, if need be by osmosis, Gertrude subsequently wrote as though her ipse dixit were enough to transform legend - the legend of herself as Picasso's one and only muse - into fact.

Now, at the time of the Flood, the omnipotent repented him that he had created man, and as then with water, now with the arrows of pestilence, was about to annihilate all, except those who obeyed his decrees, promulgated by the ipse dixit prophet.

"Nothing in either Daubert or the Federal Rules of Evidence requires a district court to admit opinion evidence that is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert [i.e., only by the statement of the expert himself]."

This is well illustrated by Pappajohn, wherein the Canadian Supreme Court, purporting to apply Morgan, held that the direction on mistake need only be put where there was some evidence beyond the mere ipse dixit of the accused to support it, as indeed there was in Morgan.

To the extent that section 5 of the Powers and Privileges of Parliament Act purported to place issues of Parliamentary privilege beyond judicial scrutiny and thus beyond the supremacy of the Constitution on the mere ipse dixit of the Speaker, it was undoubtedly unconstitutional.

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.

I am not of this writers opinion that the claims of our sister colonies, New-Hampshire and Rhode-Island, were so very reasonable, when disputes arose about the dividing lines; nor do I believe any of his disinterested readers will think his bare ipse dixit, however peremptory, a sufficient evidence of it.