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Definition of Self-evident truth
1. Noun. An assumption that is basic to an argument.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-evident Truth
Literary usage of Self-evident truth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mathematical Monthly by John Daniel Runkle (1859)
"By a self-evident truth, I mean a truth which cannot be made any plainer, and
which is already perfectly plain to an intelligent person who looks steadily ..."
2. The Mathematical Monthly by John D Runkle (1859)
"But it is a self-evident truth that at each of these ]K>ints there must be one
... Hence, by selt'n-vident connection with the self-evident truth that one ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1882)
"Professor Bowne is plainly right in his opinion that if there is self-evident
truth it is learned by the direct and immediate apprehension of the mind. ..."
4. An Examination of President Edwards's Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will by Jeremiah Day (1841)
"Intuitive truths—Can a self-evident truth be demonstrated ?—Does the nature of
a cause determine the nature of its effects ?—Theory of Doctor Watts—Are the ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These laws are not absolutely unchangeable, but subject to the will of the Creator;
they are not self-evident nor demonstrable from self-evident truth; ..."
6. Our Day (1888)
"My subject is Self-Evident Truth the Voice of God, or the testimony of the
scientific consciousness and of the church of all ages to the religious truths of ..."
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