Adverb

1. By that very fact itself. Compare: eo ipso.
   • 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, "The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations", in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833:

     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.