"I tend to support exploring ways to take positive action because it's self-evident that our approach so far hasn't achieved a proper balance".
If people find it off-putting or troubling that Sanders seems persistently unwilling to pivot away from his one-plank platform of attacking income inequality to talk about any other issue – be it police violence against black Americans or violence by Daesh overseas – they're No True Leftists, because it's self-evident to any true leftist that all issues should come back to economics.
Because it is self-evident to Frank that people's true interests are material ones, it is also self-evident to him that conservatives can only be either deluders or deluded, knaves or fools.
While demonstrating the truth of a proposition yields knowledge of it, to know a proposition because it is self-evident may or may not mean the proposition is also demonstrable.
I know a mountain is old not because a geologist tells me so, but because it is self-evident that mountains are old, just like it's self-evident that you can't touch the moon (well, most of us can't), that you can't pick up a house, that you can't breathe in water.
Although prima facie, it is unclear why Wolff attempts to advance both views, it is perhaps worth pointing out the difference between (1) being able to be demonstrate the truth of a proposition and (2) knowing the truth of a proposition because it is self-evident.
Sex work affords women important economic benefits, and programs need to address the benefits versus costs associated with behavior change because it is self-evident that it is much more difficult for condom use to be introduced by the weaker party in any power-imbalanced relationship.
Another reason the conversation is failing, more problematic still, is the reliance of American liberals on the language of "separation of church and state": because they think it's self-evident that "under God" violates "separation" and is bad for that reason alone, many liberals don't bother to investigate the deep inequalities and hierarchies that it constitutes.
"It's self-evident," he said.
It's self-evident that examining oneself predicates a pair.
