What does self-evident mean? What in your life is self-evident to you?

Answer 1

Self-evident is it's obvious to yourself.

Answer 2

Self Evident usually means " i am not willing or able to justify my premise with proof or reason" and is dependent on the accepted theories that are current. Thus it was once self evident that the world was flat. However this whole question can become like a Russian doll. If you think about what is evident to us mortals it is only through our sense apparatus which is limited in scope and operates only in three dimensions that we know anything. What then if anything is truly self evident

Answer 3

It is sometimes said that a self-evident proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory. It is also sometimes said that an analytic proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory. But these two uses of the term self-contradictory mean entirely different things. A self-evident proposition cannot be denied without knowing that one contradicts oneself (provided one actually understands the proposition). An analytic proposition cannot be denied without a contradiction, but one may fail to know that there is a contradiction because it may be a contradiction that can be found only by a long and abstruse line of logical or mathematical reasoning. Most analytic propositions are very far from self-evident. Similarly, a self-evident proposition need not be analytic: my knowledge that I am conscious is self-evident but not analytic.

An analytic proposition, however long a chain of reasoning it takes to establish it, ultimately contains a tautology, and is thus only a verbal truth: a truth established through the verbal equivalence of a single meaning. For those who admit the existence of abstract concepts, the class of non-analytic self-evident truths can be regarded as truths of the understanding--truths revealing connections between the meanings of ideas.

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Answer 4

Self-evident means to mean when something needs no proof no explanation it just is.

Kinda like how it's self-evident that bush is a bad president and is in the war for the money in iraq.

Answer 5

What is self evident is a fact of life beyond refutation. The clause in the Declaration of Independence is actually from the editing of Ben Franklin. Jefferson actually wrote sacred which Ben critiqued as being to in-vocative of religion!

Answer 6

I would have thought that was self-evident. It's self-evident to me that I'm sitting in front of my computer.

Answer 7

It's a great way to make a claim without having to intellectually or factually back it up.

It is self-evident that the person who coined the phrase is of an IQ in the moronic range.

Answer 8

Self evident is only self awareness.
Many people "live a lifetime" and never are "aware" of their own actions, behavior, personality, spirituality.
That is a shallow existence in my book.

Answer 9

self evident such be obvouious but never is so this is what I thank .
If something is self evident than I think this given this info

girls are going to have a feild day with it

Answer 10

Anything third dimensional fits.