ipsedixitism ...

[IcyPeas]

this word seems to describe many a fox news host. (you may have come across this word if you studied law)

dogmatic language; the notion that merely saying or asserting something, however untrue, makes it fact.

Derived from the Latin tag ipse dixit (literally “he said it himself”, the motto of Ancient Greece’s Pythagorean philosophers, no less), ipsedixitism is another word for dogmatic, doctrinal, and often entirely unreliable speech or language. Saying something is true just because you say it is? That’s ipsedixitism. Not got any evidence to support what you believe but what to state that you believe it anyway?

[awesomerwb1]

1. Great word.

And as you said, perfect for all Fox news hosts.

[Hekate]

2. What a great word

[FakeNoose]

3. OK I learned something new

I had a couple years of Latin in high school, but that was ... over 50 years ago.

Thanks friend, who remembers more Latin than most of us ever knew.

[central scrutinizer]

4. Sounds like religion

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Thanks for that word

I will be using it..liberally😸