0 a short statement, especially one expressing advice or a general truth:
He minimizes the difficulties of identifying the 'correct' monetary aggregate and ignores the instability of monetarist dicta on technical issues.
Certainly, subordinating local definitions to the dictum of the science of race required negotiation, and in some cases even training.
I suppose this simply reinforces the familiar dictum that 'we like what we know'.
We must learn to see in perspective before we can draw using its dicta, and even then our view is skewed by optical bias.
This dictum was to remain the evocation of the archaeological ideal of scientific common sense for a long time.
Therefore, the abiding dictum of all politics was that nothing must be done that might disturb this so-called balance of communities.
The force of these potentially radical principles was blunted by turning them into dicta.
And the well-known dictum 'each word has its own history' will have to be a guiding principle in this endeavour.
