ipso facto
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the fact itself”).
- Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
“Is not the reading of another's diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?”
adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the fact itself”).
- By that very fact itself; actually.
“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: […]”
“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.”