self-evident truth
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The soul, then, is the most basic, obvious, and self-evident truth of existence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
That self-evident truth was on vivid display throughout the recall.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021
A year into #MeToo, that's a self-evident truth that takes considerable effort not to see.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2018
They’ll see it as a portentous announcement of a self-evident truth — like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announcing that he is tall.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2018
Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
