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
But the self-evidence of the great Truth, as a universal of the reason,—as the reason itself—as a light which revealed itself by its own essence as light—this they had not had vouchsafed to them.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thus self-evidence of this sort is a matter of degree; and it seems plain that the higher degrees are more to be trusted than the lower degrees.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
It will be remembered that at the end of Chapter XI we suggested that there might be two kinds of self-evidence, one giving an absolute guarantee of truth, the other only a partial guarantee.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
