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Self-evident truth   /sɛlf-ˈɛvədənt truθ/   Listen
Self-evident truth

noun
1.
An assumption that is basic to an argument.  Synonyms: basic assumption, constatation.






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"Self-evident truth" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyes, in which at such times there burned a seemingly unquenchable light of self-feeding defiance, and gave them to understand, with a repelling dignity of manner that bordered hard on haughtiness, that what she and her son might or might not do was no one's concern but their own. This self-evident truth, when it struck home to her well-wishers, made her no friends. Nor did she regret this. She had dwelt, as it were, apart, since her marriage and early widowhood—her husband had died seven months before Champney was born—on the old Googe estate ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... Abelard's part, and in a satirical treatise ventured to criticise St. Bernard's conduct: "Thus philosophise the old women at the looms. Of course, when Bernard tells us that we must love God, he speaks a true and venerable word; but he need not have opened his lips to do so, for it is a self-evident truth." As a matter of fact, these words branded and contradicted the merely subjective emotional mysticism; to the emotional mystic salvation lies in the "absorption in God," in shapeless, thoughtless contemplation. Richard of St. Victor, founding his theories ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka



Words linked to "Self-evident truth" :   supposal, assumption, constatation, basic assumption, supposition



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