Sentences with phrase «homines dixit»

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?)

All in vain, though; nothing I said could rival the dialectical force of his ringing sic Thomas dixit.

Imagine the ipse dixits that passed for legal reasoning in this case, and you will grasp the unsatisfactory character of an opinion that closes down discussion on the implausible fear that critical thinking about the origins of life in the universe is unconstitutional.

Arsenal has the money to spend, dixit Arsene and Gazidis.

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.

I'm sorry Alan, but simply offering a dismissive ipse dixit in favour of some alternative parallel universe reality doth not an argument maketh.

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».

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.

In General Electric Co. v. Joiner, the United States Supreme Court said that there is nothing in Daubert or the Federal Rules of Evidence that requires a trial court «to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.

Ipse dixit.