self-evident
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-evident
First recorded in 1665–75
Vocabulary lists containing self-evident
Obvious
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There’s a key difference between a slave and an AI system: While the basic humanity of the former is self-evident, the claim that the latter might deserve moral consideration is speculative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
For Kim, the propaganda value of Xi's visit is self-evident.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Pause for a moment and think about the very fact of our Constitution, and this no-entrenchment principle becomes self-evident.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Burden wrote this long after the fact, when the binary nature of her marriage became self-evident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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