eo ipso
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin eo ipso, ablative form of id ipsum (“that (thing) itself”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Adverb
eo ipso (not comparable)
- Through or by that very act or quality; thereby. Compare: ipso facto.[1]
- 1998, Slavoj Žižek, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, ch. 1)
- When we demand an object from somebody, its “use value” (the fact that it serves to satisfy some of our needs) eo ipso becomes a form of expression of its “exchange value”; the object in question functions as an index of a network of intersubjective relations.'
- 1998, Slavoj Žižek, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, ch. 1)