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.
As she walks off, mink stole wrapped protectively around her, it's difficult not to reconsider a screen veteran in self-evident thrall to the London stage — since 2005, Ms. Cattrall has done four West End plays — on the way to furthering the renewed career that she is finding in the theater.
Yet we'd always longed for that important exposure, and felt it represented rectitude-in-practice, self-evident wisdom, and a sense of fairness expressed by an unpretentious bent for the arts.
Why gratuitous, in this self-evident context?
"With none of my writings," declares Freud, "have I had such a strong feeling as I have now that what I am describing is common knowledge, that I am using pen and paper, and shall soon be using the services of the compositor and printer, to say things that are in fact self-evident".
Thus Principle 5 issues in the self-evident belief, for example, that I perceive a computer before me (Van Cleve 1999).
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.
I didn't understand the problem; the keynote speaker's message fell in the self-evident, wholesome, "mom and apple pie" category, reflecting positively on her employer.
When the smoke finally cleared, the core religion of the American people found expression in the Declaration of Independence -- a belief in the sovereign rule of a God all "men" could know through the light of nature and in the "self-evident truths" this God had created all "men" to enjoy: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But the vast crack in his rhetoric was self-evident: in effect, he was approximating the nothing-to-fear approach of Roosevelt, while extolling the fiscal stupidities of Herbert Hoover.
Some have gone further to suggest that the PSR in particular is "self-evident, obvious, intuitively clear, in no need of argumentative support" (Pruss 2006, 189).
