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Definition of Self-evident
1. Adjective. Evident without proof or argument. "We hold these truths to be self-evident"
Definition of Self-evident
1. Adjective. Obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-evident
Literary usage of Self-evident
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"Maxims or Axioms are Self- evident Propositions. Wherein that Self- evidence
consists. and because they are self-evident, have been supposed ..."
2. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"The proposition then to be proved is, that "I confess that these are far from
being self-evident ideas." It is necessary to set it down, and carry it in our ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"JUDICIAL NOTICE, recognition by a court of some certain feature involved in an
action as being self-evident and, therefore, in no necessity of proof. ..."
4. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"Happy had it been for the Christian world, had this self-evident maxim been
practically attended to; for then what dispute could possibly have arisen ..."
5. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1838)
"They are self-evident.—There is a sort of propositions, which, under the name of
maxims and axioms, have passed for principles of science; and because they ..."
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