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Webster 1913 Edition


Self-evidence

Selfˊ-ev′i-dence

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Noun.
The quality or state of being self-evident.
Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Self-evidence

SELF-EV'IDENCE

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Noun.
[self and evidence.] Evidence or certainty resulting from a proposition without proof; evidence that ideas offer to the mind upon bare statement.

Definition 2024


self-evidence

self-evidence

English

Noun

self-evidence (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being self-evident.
    • 1689: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, IV. vii. 10.
      Any... man knows, that the whole is equal to all its parts, or any other maxim, and all from the same reason of self-evidence.

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References

  • self-evidence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911