self-evident
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As we observe the 250th anniversary of the document that declared this proposition a self-evident truth, many Americans don’t regard it as true, let alone self-evident.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
For Kim, the propaganda value of Xi's visit is self-evident.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Pause for a moment and think about the very fact of our Constitution, and this no-entrenchment principle becomes self-evident.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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