This single dictum will be sufficient for those who bow to the influence of authority in matters of opinion.
Such teaching is not a whit in advance of Plutarch's odd dictum that the moon has a "special hand in the birth of children.
No thoughtful person will be likely to dispute the dictum of Sir John Lubbock that "traditions and myths are of great importance, and indirectly throw much light on the condition of man in ancient times.
Fallacies of ellipsis usually go by learned names, as; (1) a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter.
There is also, as we have seen, a method of Deductive Logic resting on the Principles of Consistency and the Dictum de omni et nullo.
Dictum de omni et nullo was stated: 'Whatever may be predicated of a term distributed may be predicated of anything that can be identified with that term.
So there are both discouragement and cheer for those who accept the Wise Man's dictum that there is nothing new under the sun.
And with this dictum John Mortimer heartily agreed.
Which wise dictum might or might not be based on the fox's opinion as to sour grapes.
Jefferson's dictum that governments are instituted among men in order to secure them in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is luminous nonsense.
Spinoza's dictumapplies to what William James called the "psychologist's fallacy.
All four fallacies just enumerated come under Spinoza's dictum as special cases come under a general law.
Consider, as an example, Spinoza's psychological law freely expressed in the dictum that Paul's idea of Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
And he has certainly vindicated in practice that dictum of Emerson: "A skilful man reads dreams for his self-knowledge.
The dictum or verdict of Goethe that "the English may think of Byron as they please, but this is certain that they show no poet who is to be compared with him" was and is the keynote of continental European criticism.
In one of his letters we already find the germ of his famous dictum that "probability is the guide of life.
We have Browning's dictumon Shakespeare's sonnets, With this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
Footnote: See the discussion of Bentham's dictum in its bearings on justice, J.
The one question, like the other, looks for its answer in the dictum of some intuition.
Will the "Free Classic" of the Queen Anne reformers bear the test of a critical comparison with the "seven lamps" of Vitruvius or the dictum of Roscoe?
Cicero’s appreciation of Carbo’s patris dictum sapiens temeritas fili comprobavit may be instructively compared with Dionysius’ attitude towards the general question of good and bad rhythms.
Accepting the Sophists' dictum that "man is the measure of all things," he tried to turn youths from the baser individualism of the Sophists of his day to the larger general truths which measure the life of a true man.
How generally was his dictum that a knowledge of Latin and Greek were essential for a well-educated gentleman (135) accepted?
Political agitators, bad as they often are, do not bring the authoritative dictumof a religious synod.
St Peter himself, from whom the succession is claimed, is discarded; the inspired dictum of a present Pontiff is all-sufficient.
The faith delivered to the saints" is not with the Papacy one faith; there is but one faith, the dictum of the one present Infallible--the Pope of Rome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dictum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
