ipse dixits

plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • This group, a key driving force in the success of today's economy, should not be ignored, let alone scoffed at based on a series of cartoonish delusions and misplaced presumptions.
    Rory O'Hara, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, Laura saw a woman, a relative stranger, whose flagrant presumptions had unwittingly changed the course of her own life, or perhaps only hastened that change.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Leaders are now compelled to reassess their foundational assumptions, as geopolitical risk increasingly impacts economic stability, regulatory environments, and market access.
    Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Originally developed within military and intelligence communities, red teaming is a structured approach designed to challenge assumptions, expose blind spots, and stress-test strategies through adversarial thinking and critical analysis.
    Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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 experts then had to agree on the fundamental truths, or axioms, that were accepted as true even thought they could not be proven.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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