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ipso facto - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adverb

ipso facto (not comparable)

  • By that very fact itself; actually.
    • ✤ Coordinate term: eo ipso
    • ✤ Cope was not long in feeling him as operating on the unconscious assumption—unconscious, and therefore all the more damnable—that the young man in business constituted, ipso facto, a kind of norm by which other young men in other fields of endeavor were to be gauged: […]1
    • ✤ For [Ludwig von] Mises or[Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.2
    • ✤ We’ve imbued “natural food” with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.3
    • ✤ Intellectually, Ibanez had understood that there would be a lot of caverns. She’d once read that the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater bodies in the world, had a surface area of something like a quarter of a million square kilometres. The Mishepeshu were said to have used their tunnels to travel between the lakes and their islands. Ipso facto, there would be a lot of interior space down here. She’d patrolled some of it before. She’d seen it mapped by drones like the ones Nascimbeni had used. She should have been prepared.4

Adjective

ipso facto (not comparable)

  • Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
    • ✤ Is not the reading of another’s diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?5

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the fact itself”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94: ↩

  2. 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, “The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833: ↩

  3. 2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn’t ‘Natural’”, in The Atlantic ‎: ↩

  4. 2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation ‎, archived from the original on 31 August 2024: ↩

  5. 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13: ↩

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