In Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Quebec (Attorney - General)(1908), 41 S.C.R. 116 at 132, Idington J. said «I refuse to accept unless absolutely necessary the mere
ipse dixit of any expert when presented for my acceptance merely as an act of faith, and without the aid of such reasons as his reasoning power, or means of, and result of the use of means of, observations may have developed».
Joiner has likely made this task more difficult by instructing trial judges that neither Daubert nor the Federal Rules of Evidence «requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse
dixit of the expert.
Manifestum est ergo, quia
homines dixit deos, ex gratia sua deificatos, non de substantia sua natos.
All in vain, though; nothing I said could rival the dialectical force of his ringing sic
Thomas dixit.
I'm sorry Alan, but simply offering a dismissive ipse
dixit in favour of some alternative parallel universe reality doth not an argument maketh.
On the one occasion I asked you, a few years ago, to substantiate a similar claim, you tried to put the onus on me to disprove your ipse
dixit assertion!
He establishes this point through
ipse dixit («The middle - class nuclear family will not be restored to its former place, nor do most people want it to be»), the persuasive force of clichés about the sexual revolution (Had you heard that the 1960s gave us a pill that allowed women to take control of their bodies?)
Parental authority was still in vogue and, while fathers and mothers were probably no wiser than they are now, their ipse
dixit had more weight and drive in it when they assumed the purple and played the autocrat.
The court addresses this concern with nothing but ipse
dixit that all will be well.
With no support beyond its own ipse
dixit, the Court concludes that the Kentucky statute involved in this case «has no secular legislative purpose,» ante at 449 U. S. 41 (emphasis supplied), and that» [t] he preeminent purpose for posting the Ten Commandments on schoolroom walls is plainly religious in nature,» ibid.