The Qurʾān, their only sacred canon or standard of faith, authenticates itself, they believe, by its internal self-evidencing power, for it is composed of the very words of God communicated to Muhammad and recited by him without addition or subtraction.
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.
What is most distressing is that many administrators appear to accept the self-evidence of market values.
That private matters belong in private is a truism that appears to have lost its self-evidence.
The self-evidence of the cogito, seen by his "natural light," he made the ideal for all other knowledge.
But instead of breeding local concern, information, with its self-evidence and instantaneity, had begun to isolate readers in time and space.
Compare the dreamy sorcery of Turrell's installations with the blunt self-evidence of the fluorescent fixtures deployed in Flavin's light pieces.
