self-evidence
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edit- The quality of being self-evident.
- 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, IV. vii. 10:
- Any... man knows, that the whole is equal to all its parts, or any other maxim, and all from the same reason of self-evidence.
Translations
editthe quality of being self-evident
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References
edit- “self-evidence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.