ipse dixits

noun

plural of ipse dixit
as in premises

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  1. premises
  2. postulates
  3. presumptions
  4. assumptions
  5. axioms
  6. dicta
  7. maxims
  8. hypotheticals
Noun
  • One of the shelters available during recent alerts is a modernised facility beneath the premises of municipal bus operator MPK in Lublin.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The premises are also monitored by Perry’s own elite, 24-hour security team.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of premises
Noun
  • Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of postulates
Noun
  • These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.
    — David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of presumptions
Noun
  • This moment captures a tension that Said faced in battling assumptions that deep political engagement somehow foreclosed the possibility of other interests.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Teams can test assumptions, gather feedback and decide whether an idea deserves another iteration or should be left behind.
    — Stephen Clark, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of assumptions
Noun
  • The question fascinated David Hilbert, a renowned mathematician who had devoted much of his life to rebuilding physics on a sturdy foundation of crisp axioms.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Yes, the Greeks made remarkable advances in mathematics, but mostly in geometry, which is about solid, stable objects and uses a strict hierarchy of axioms, rules, and procedures—very Platonic.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of axioms
Noun
  • Safe and familiar as that trajectory might be in a post-#GirlBoss rom-com, Goldstein and Joe Kelly’s script adds a little spice into the mix by questioning the dictums of today’s office culture.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
Definition of dicta
Noun
  • Groups of implicatures Grice identified three broad groups of implicatures generated through the observance, violation, or flouting of maxims in keeping with the cooperative principle.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The walls are robin’s-egg blue, painted with images of meditating skeletons and vaguely inspirational maxims.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Definition of maxims
Noun
  • Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Thus, hypotheticals involving the NFL using a college football model might have been off base.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hypotheticals
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