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But, in all of them, she manages to maintain the self-contained self-evidence and untethered potential of more ordinary flat rectangles.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2017

The self-evidence of ecumenical relations between the churches is now a fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

There can be no principles of self-evidence, but logicians have always been more or less concerned with the enumeration of alleged self-evident principles, notably those of contradiction and identity.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

Thus if not even self-evidence furnishes us a criterion of truth, we must conclude that none whatever exists.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

They lack the theatrical self-evidence of the earlier dramas.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno