单词 | ipse-dixitism |
释义 | > as lemmasipse-dixitism ipse-dixitism n. /ɪpsɪˈdɪksɪtɪz(ə)m/ dogmatic assertion. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > dogmatic assertion > [noun] peremptoriness1592 positivenessa1649 ipse-dixitisma1832 positivism1894 plonking1950 a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) I. xx. 321 Why the ipse-dixit root should not produce all the branches necessary to discourse,—as ipse-dixitists, and ipse-dixitism. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory II. 93 Bentham denounces all appeals to a moral faculty as sheer ‘ipse dixitism’. 1896 J. B. Mayor New Suppl. Guide Choice Classical Bks. Pref. 11 In contrast to this ipse-dixitism, as Bentham would have called it. < as lemmas |
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