We praise literature in self-evident terms: it is better to read than not to read, for reading civilizes us, makes us less cruel, and brings the imaginations of others into ours and vice versa.
Just what he means, then, by terms "evident" and "self-evident" (terms he greatly prefers to the more contemporary "justification" and "knowledge") is an issue meriting further research.
"Ethical rules that we choose to put in that design [impact society]… Nothing is self evident.
"I think that's pretty self evident".
By resolving inequities in a scale arising from differential item difficulty, Rasch analysis provides a self-evident benefit in terms of accuracy of scoring.
If the essence of the subject term is what connects it to the predicate term in a self-evident proposition, then the essence of God must be what makes "God exists" self-evident.
Paine's 77-page pamphlet aimed to outline the reasons for rejecting British authority in the simplest, most straightforward terms, with self-evident arguments and a destiny written in the stars.
According to Aristotle, scientific knowledge (episteme) must be expressed in statements that follow deductively from a finite list of self-evident statements (axioms) and only employ terms defined from a finite list of self-understood terms (primitives).
Why gratuitous, in this self-evident context?
