ipse dixit

noun

Definition of ipse dixitnext
as in given

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  1. given
  2. premise
  3. presumption
  4. dictum
  5. postulate
  6. doctrine
  7. assumption
  8. axiom
Noun
  • There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2024
  • About the only givens seemingly would be Bam Adebayo making first-team All-Defense for the first time, after second-team such nods the past four seasons, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. making first-team All-Rookie.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2024
Definition of given
Noun
  • Cutting a long story short, a vocal minority of reactionary gamers is perturbed that a sci-fi video game features a Black samurai protagonist, despite the game’s hokey premise centering on the genetic recording of memories written to computer software.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Emilia Pérez was a natural choice thanks to its peculiar premise.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of premise
Noun
  • Its hero, Rusty Sabich, was a prosecuting attorney entitled to the presumption of innocence, as the law requires, when an ambitious rival puts him on trial for the murder of a colleague.
    Lisa Henricksson, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
  • So why not own your investigation or say the team preferred to stand by a presumption of innocence instead of hiding behind the league?
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of presumption
Noun
  • Instead, Martel echoes the great aesthete himself, Oscar Wilde, in his serene dictum that all art is perfectly useless.
    Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • But due to card production and printing schedules, rookie cards were issued for months outside the scope of this dictum.
    Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
Definition of dictum
Noun
  • Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
Definition of postulate
Noun
  • Courts in at least five states – Montana, New York, Washington, Vermont and Oregon – have rejected the open fields doctrine, finding it’s not supported by their state constitutions.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • OpenAI argued that the fair use doctrine protects them.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of doctrine
Noun
  • This archetype is essential in a world where assumptions often go unchallenged, stifling creativity and growth.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But the officials and victims assembled in the Situation Room considered whether this assumption was really valid.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of assumption
Noun
  • The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The famous wrestler Sting, in describing his character change in 1996 from a clear babyface to a darker, enigmatic character, offered the perfect axiom about predicting the future.
    Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of axiom
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