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self-ˈevident, a. (n.)
[self- 3 b.]
Evident of itself without proof; axiomatic.
1690Locke Hum. Und. i. ii. §14 These general and self-evident Maxims. Ibid. ii. i. §10 Whether this, That the Soul always thinks, be a self-evident Proposition. 1736Butler Anal. ii. Concl. 290 The Truth of revealed Religion,..is not self-evident. 1809W. Irving Hist. New York (1861) 115 He never suffered even a self-evident fact to pass unargued. 1861Paley æschylus' Persians 578 note, This is one of those happy emendations which at once commend themselves by a self-evident propriety. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 405 The self-evident fact that growth is the result of eating and drinking.
b. as n. A self-evident proposition.
1868Athenæum 22 Aug. 241/3 The relations of premise and consequence which exist between self-evidents.
So self-eviˈdential a., resting upon self-evidence; self-ˈevidentism, the character of being self-evident; self-ˈevidently adv., in a self-evident manner.
1872Sanday 4th Gosp. i. 1 Its *self-evidential force at once ceases.
1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 336 Two propositions, which she is ready to back for *self-evidentism against any two in Euclid.
1696Lorimer Rem. on Goodwin's Disc. vii. 40 The Major Proposition is *self evidently false, when stript of its Identical dress. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 684 All voluntary labour..appears an oddity and strangeness, and by that mark must needs be self-evidently wrong. 1886Law Times LXXXII. 77/1 Any alteration in the terms of a contract which is not self-evidently for the benefit of the surety. |