Quine and Ullian (1978), for example, consider the traditional philosophical picture that all truths could be proved by self-evident steps from self-evident truths and observation.
They then point out that even the truths of elementary number theory are presumably not in general derivable by self-evident steps from self-evident truths (Quine & Ullian 1978: 64 65).
Identifying patterns of accounting change in this way emphasizes that a local government might be focused on a prospective stance as, for instance, exhibited by self-evident rationales of accrual-based accounting change (Lapsley et al. 2009; Pina et al. 2009).
Planned economies were growing so fast under diverse political systems from fascist dictatorships to liberal democracies that their superiority was understood by virtually everyone to be self evident.
The benefits of a Europe whole, prosperous and free after being twice devastated by wars requiring American intervention was self evident.
The method expounded in his Discourse on Method (1637) was one of doubt: all was uncertain until established by reasoning from self-evident propositions, on principles analogous to those of geometry.
That gut-level doubt can portend coming trouble seems true by definition, self-evident.
They offer a hermeneutics of the cc, an invocation against the word "please," and a number of rather chilling but by now self-evident rules ("Never forward without permission, and assume everything you write will be forwarded").
Observers have thus sometimes judged Mr Cable to be unhappy to be sharing power with the Conservatives and eclipsed by the self-evident comfort and confidence of Mr Clegg.
