Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being self-evident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being self-evident.
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- noun The quality of being
self-evident .
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Examples
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I wonder if the ‘self-evidence’ is simply due to teachers noticing and giving more importance to errors which can be attributed to negative transfer.
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Rather, together with the loss of beauty as a transcendental, the self-evidence of goodness and truth has also been lost.
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In fact, given how much obviousness tends to bug Millicent, it will behoove you to make a point of asking your first readers to look specifically for instances of self-evidence.
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In fact, given how much obviousness tends to bug Millicent, it will behoove you to make a point of asking your first readers to look specifically for instances of self-evidence.
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Fox has the highest ratings of any network, which they use as self-evidence of support for the conservative agenda.
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As a grand conjecture, one based upon experience and continually open to revision, the ontology of Process and Reality has no pretenses toward either axiomatic self-evidence or finality.
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009
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I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized.
Incorruptible and Forever Heather McDougal 2007
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I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized.
Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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His blank expression reflected the self-evidence of this statement.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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His blank expression reflected the self-evidence of this statement.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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