section_heading: Povijest
paragraph_text: Do ranog 17. stoljeća učenjaci su rabili uzrečicu ipse dixit radi opravdanja argumenata u svojim područjima ako je iste argumente bio rabio starogrčki filozof Aristotel (384. – 322. pr. Kr.).<ref>Burton, George Ward. (1909). [http://books.google.com/books?id=pA8wAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA27&dq= Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory, str. 27]; izvadak, "But by the time of Bacon, students had fallen into the habit of accepting Aristotle as an infallible guide, and when a dispute arose the appeal was not to fact, but to Aristotle's theory, and the phrase, Ipse dixit, ended all dispute." (engl.: No do Baconova vremena studenti su stekli naviku prihvaćanja Aristotela kao nepogrešiva vodiča, a kad je do rasprave došlo, nije se prizivalo na činjenice, već na Aristotelovu teoriju, a fraza ipse dixit okončavala je svaki spor.)