Sentence examples for self-evident idea from inspiring English sources

This isn't a self-evident idea; Gibbon, as he charts the fall of the Roman Empire, barely glances at the contemporaneous Persian one.

Mainly because it is not easy to check peer review without interfering with the editorial process, but also because it is considered a self-evident idea, the scientific testing of a process that is essential for science, which filters and shapes scientific communications and decides major research funding, has barely deserved the interest of researchers.

All knowledge depends upon empirical investigation and so is fallible: it is not built upon any more immediate or reliable entities such as sense data or self-evident ideas.

I wouldn't call it crudely leftwing, but it takes as self-evident the idea that George W Bush, while he is a tragic and complicated person, is a simpleton who is easily misled by cannier, more mean-spirited characters within the White House.

Starting from the seminal hypothesis developed by contemporary psychopathology that schizophrenic patients experience a form of consciousness that finds itself forced to question phenomena that should be intuitively self-evident, the idea of the present paper is to complete the usual interpretation of schizophrenia as a deficit by the hypothesis of an excessive functioning of consciousness.

According to the Ontological Argument, it is self-evident from the idea of the most real being that that being exists.

To eyes for whom the circus as a subject of serious art was self-evident, but for whom the idea of kinetic, encompassing performance attached to any artistic enterprise was new, Calder's natural preoccupations seemed thrilling, even radical.

It is the way that we apprehend self-evident truths, general and abstract ideas, "and anything else we may discover, without making any use of any process of reasoning" (1758/1969, 159).

The idea, deemed so self-evident that it sometimes is left unspoken, is that corporations are hesitating to invest in the United States.

But there is nothing in the idea of a self-evident proposition as we are understanding it that commits one to this view.

It seems to me that it is self-evident that when the end-result idea eventually penetrates the minds of hospital trustees they will no more think of letting Dr. Wisdom treat their Bone Sarcoma cases than they would now let him treat a prize bull on their private stock farm.