All knowledge depends upon empirical investigation and so is fallible: it is not built upon any more immediate or reliable entities such as sense data or self-evident ideas.
This isn't a self-evident idea; Gibbon, as he charts the fall of the Roman Empire, barely glances at the contemporaneous Persian one.
Mainly because it is not easy to check peer review without interfering with the editorial process, but also because it is considered a self-evident idea, the scientific testing of a process that is essential for science, which filters and shapes scientific communications and decides major research funding, has barely deserved the interest of researchers.
The pejorative connotations of the term are clearly evident: The idea that the captives in this tomb were Joseph's brethren, which Mrs. Romer, in her Travels, makes such a great noise about, is well exposed by Miss Martineau; as well as the Elginism of Mrs. Romer, in removing a figure of one of the captives.
Under-ascertainment among 5 year-olds relative to 10 year-olds is also evident in IDEA constant-age tracking data for all states in Additional file 1: Figure S1.
It's a self-evident-enough idea, but the reason Lens and other A.R. technologies are being introduced only now is that software is finally capable of supporting them.
Starting from the seminal hypothesis developed by contemporary psychopathology that schizophrenic patients experience a form of consciousness that finds itself forced to question phenomena that should be intuitively self-evident, the idea of the present paper is to complete the usual interpretation of schizophrenia as a deficit by the hypothesis of an excessive functioning of consciousness.
I wouldn't call it crudely leftwing, but it takes as self-evident the idea that George W Bush, while he is a tragic and complicated person, is a simpleton who is easily misled by cannier, more mean-spirited characters within the White House.
Before analyzing the spatial ideas evident in people's gestures, we first examined the spatial ideas evident in their speech.
Importantly, the spatial ideas evident in the hands were largely unaccompanied by spatial words.
Moreover, it became evident that his ideas did not help logical positivists solve the key problems that they were struggling with.
