ipse dixit

Latin.

he himself said it.

an assertion without proof.

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ipse dixit (ˈɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt)

—n
	an arbitrary and unsupported assertion

[C16, literally: he himself said it]

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ipse dixit

1477, from L., lit. "he (the master) said it," translation of Gk. autos epha, phrase used by disciples of Pythagoras when quoting their master.

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"All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it, the law of the necessity of "self-overcoming" in the nature of life—the lawgiver himself eventually receives the call: "patere legem, quam ipse tulisti." In this way Christianity as a dogma was destroyed by its own morality; in the same way Christianity as morality must now perish, too: we stand on the threshold of this event. After Christian truthfulness has drawn one inference after another, it must end by drawing its most striking inference, its inference against itself; this will happen, however, when it poses the question "what is the meaning of all will to truth?""

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