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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

But the very characteristics of mystical religion which give it its self-evidence and power at the same time mark limits to its scope and range.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

This being so, in the next place, let us consider whether this self-evidence be peculiar only to those propositions which commonly pass under the name of maxims, and have the dignity of axioms allowed them.

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by Locke, John

Thus there is a continual gradation in the degree of self-evidence of what I remember, and a corresponding gradation in the trustworthiness of my memory.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand