ipse

I mean, by begging the question and arguing using ipse dixit?

Madison [0] was a bootstrapped, ipse dixit assumption of authority by the Supreme Court.

Nemo plus iuris ad alium transferre potest, quam ipse haberet.

Seriously, I'm asking for an objective definition, not just ipse dixit.

> (p.131) Labor ipse voluptas is a happy proposition wheresoever it can be applied.

I'm quite ready to take an argument that stands on its own at face value, and have no time for an ipse dixit or isolated demand for rigor.

The solution proposed is let the rich get richer, let’s just ask them to be fair, with some intervention from the church, which is ipse dixit just to protect a convenient and isolated principle of natural order.

Now you can say “the rest of the world is just wrong” but you’re going to need more than that ipse dixit.

I've already rebutted that, you only returned with an ipse dixit to say "no but actually Islam is really violent." What we're discussing here is towards deconstructing that point, so also rendering the claim of no true scotsman a moot point (doubly so).

That ipse-dixit contention is purely a matter of what Justice White aptly referred to in Roe as "raw judicial power" — and recall that after Dred Scott, a more-extreme version of such a contention was finally resolved at Appomattox as the culmination of four years of bloody civil war.