self-evident
adjective
evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
self-evidence
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a word derived from
self-evident.
Example Sentences
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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
And the consideration which led Kant to take mathematics as his starting-point seems to have been the self-evidence of mathematical judgements.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
The most general logical principles which have appeared in the historical development of formal logic are definition, self-evidence, inference, and observation.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
The inductive principle has less self-evidence than some of the other principles of logic, such as 'what follows from a true premiss must be true'.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
