This is not a self-evident statement.
It's a pretty rational, self-evident statement which has become the mantra for those seeking to justify raising the retirement age in the UK.
It sounds like a fairly self-evident statement, but as the Wikipedia page points out the notion has its detractors.
A recurring device the paper uses is a self-evident statement, the kind you'd expect a politician to rely on when being interrogated by a journalist rather than in a policy paper.
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).
When self-evident statements like "black lives matter" become slogans repeated with depressing regularity, El-P and Killer Mike's unapologetically political hip-hop album, Run the Jewels 2, feels in some ways like the most relevant release of the year.
While this should be self evident, McConnell's statement only added fuel to a lingering suspicion that to some politicians the health care "issue" is just one more partisan identity signifier, when health is by definition about people, not politics.
The stupidity of that statement is self evident.
"I think that's pretty self evident".
