It is difficult to refute this claim -- not because it is self-evidently true, but because any evidence that might support it remains classified and unknown to all but those who defend the program.
For according to Wolff, even empirical truths of fact, such as 'this rock is now warm,' are candidates for demonstration and deductive proof.[55] From this perspective, since PSR is self-evidently true, Wolff believes it can be demonstrated to be so (despite whether his proof presented in §70 of the Ontologia succeeds or not).
According to this narrative, the suggestion that Netanyahu is interfering in U.S. politics - as is self-evidently true - is unacceptable, because it feeds anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews pulling the strings of politicians.
This is not in any way constructive, but it feels great and it is, self-evidently, true.
But the same is self-evidently true of the other side, too.
Not because it is self-evidently true, but because we don't even have to mount a defence.
The same is self-evidently true across today's Spanish-speaking, French-speaking, Portuguese-speaking and English-speaking worlds.
He doesn't believe he needs to supply details, because he was a businessman and thus everything he says about dollars is self-evidently true.
There's more leeway for a wavering voice when everyone already knows the tune, and nostalgia sells well.When Mr Stewart rasps through the opening line of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"—"Someone told me long ago," he croaks—it is easy to forgive him, not least because it is self-evidently true.
The difficulty with a system such as those of Descartes and Spinoza is that there are persons who cannot be brought to see that the primary propositions of the system are self-evidently true, and this not because they are lacking in attention or insight but because they see the world in a different way.
In fact, the comment generated little discussion at the time because it was self-evidently true.
