Hence, Lotze counted the axioms of geometry as "self-evident truths," their very self-evidence being grounded in their intuitive nature: "he conceived the role of intuition as that of revealing the self-evident" (ibid).
Our "self-evident" perceptions of the world – the self-evidence that leads us to believe skinny jeans are cool or sleeping pills are the only solution – may be highly skewed, and have little in common with the perceptions of those enmeshed in networks far away.
But it is not obvious that the contents of these intuitions are self-evident propositions; whether they are may depend on how self-evidence is understood.
Someone might know some self-evident proposition, such as that if $A$ is better than $B$ and $B$ is better than $C$ then $A$ is better than $C$, but lack the concept of self-evidence, so couldn't know that that proposition is self-evident.
Moore did sometimes make bald assertions of self-evidence, as in his claim in Ethics that it is self-evident that the right is always what most promotes the good (112), and some critics have found this baldness troubling.
For ethical intuitions this non-inferred basis of knowledge is self-evident truth grasped by intuition.[3] It is, however, important to keep intuition and self-evidence separate for a number of reasons.
The French Paradox, so-called, is really the French self-evidence.
In Mr. Thiebaud's American subject, he suggests, is the self-evidence of happiness.
What destroyed the self-evidence of religious faith in Europe was not, I think, science.
Axioms are ordinarily truisms; consequently, self-evidence may be taken as a mark of intuition.
Its blunt presence, in a gleaming aluminum frame, also announced the keynote self-evidence of minimalism.
