self-evident

Related to self-evident: self-evident truth

self-ev·i·dent

(sĕlf′ĕv′ĭ-dənt)

adj.

Requiring no proof or explanation.

self′-ev′i·dence n.

self′-ev′i·dent·ly adv.

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self-evident

adj

containing its own evidence or proof without need of further demonstration

ˌself-ˈevidence n

ˌself-ˈevidently adv

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self`-ev′ident

adj.

evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.

[1665–75]

self`-ev′idently, adv.

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Adj.

self-evident - evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"

axiomatic, taken for granted

obvious - easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "obvious errors"

self-evident

adjective obvious, clear, undeniable, inescapable, written all over (something), cut-and-dried (informal), incontrovertible, axiomatic, manifestly or patently true It is self-evident that we do not have enough resources.

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self-evident

[ˌselfˈevɪdənt] ADJ → manifiesto, patente

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self-evident

[ˌsɛlfˈɛvɪd/ənt] adj → evidente, lampante

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self-evident

(selfˈevidənt) adjective

clear enough to need no proof. It is self-evident that we need food to stay alive.

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The suggestion we are to examine is that such: beliefs have some recognizable quality which secures their truth, and the truth of whatever is deduced from them according to self-evident principles of inference.

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Why, he said, we think that you are lazy, and mean to cheat us out of a whole chapter which is a very important part of the story; and you fancy that we shall not notice your airy way of proceeding; as if it were self-evident to everybody, that in the matter of women and children `friends have all things in common.'

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History seems to assume that this force is self-evident and known to everyone.

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Emily not convinced, even by this self-evident view of the case.

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Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter, but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned.

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Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of a summer's day, but in the meantime might be the subject of question, of hypothesis, of debate.

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I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man, upon which he jumped from his chair, reproved me for my habitual levity, which made it impossible for him to discuss any reasonable subject in my presence, and bounced off out of the room to dress for a Masonic meeting.