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self-evident truth

NOUN
  1. an assumption that is basic to an argument

How To Use self-evident truth In A Sentence

  • It spawns more committees and more reporting of self-evident truths.
  • We are the weirdos in denying what everybody else takes to be a self-evident truth.
  • As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face. Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders
  • It is this approach that gives rise to an axiomatics, where the axioms were to be numbered among those things identified as the self-evident truths. Hermann Lotze
  • Ideally the definitions would generate all the concepts from clear and distinct ideas, and the proofs would generate all the theorems from self-evident truths.
  • Davies used to believe the need to guard personal privacy against invasion was a self-evident truth.
  • a _self-evident truth; _ but now, when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the maxim '_a self-evident lie_.' Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
  • Elementary properties of numbers and geometry were taken to be self-evident truths.
  • Less far-reaching but no less grand, in 1982 two men with a love of Nordic skiing and a good bottle of wine hit upon the self-evident truth that Vermont needed a state-wide ski trail.
  • These are not available to an experiencer possessed only with sense-data and the self-evident truths of logic.
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