Meaning of self-evident in English

self-evident

adjective

/ˌselfˈev.ɪ.dənt/ us

/ˌselfˈev.ə.dənt/

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clear or obvious without needing any proof or explanation:

Solutions which seem self-evident to humans are often beyond the grasp of computers.

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axiomatic formal

obvious

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Apparent and obvious

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self-evident

adjective [ not gradable ]

/selˈfev·ə·dənt/

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so clear or obvious that no proof or explanation is needed:

self-evident facts

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In the debates, people did not even emphasise this fact, which is self-evident for them.

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The reason an eighteenth-century audience would have enjoyed those ' ' repulsive' ' goings-on is that for them the split between character and performer was self-evident and unbridgeable.

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It has sometimes not been believed, it is not self-evident, and it is synthetic.

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Fans were 'presumably' quick to identify because the lyrics expressed a self-evident male chauvinism.

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Before science could become a widespread social value in its own right, it had to be justified on other "self-evident" grounds.

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Although this may seem self-evident, it is a crucial limit on our ability to develop compelling counterfactual scenarios.

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But, as he argues persuasively, the reasons for the existence of the first and the third are by no means self-evident.

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Much of this literature is arid, self-evident and inadequately researched.

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It is not easy to read these books if these realities seem self-evident.

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In short, he is committed both to a broad pluralism and a self-evident ethical criterion that can undercut his pluralism.

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This principle is self-evident : nothing is identical to one of its proper parts.

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Even going out and staying there is not a self-evident matter.

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That these parties/carnivals are overtly anti-domestic is self-evident.

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But my point above was precisely that there is nothing self-evident about these relevant senses.

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The algorithms presented in this paper will use in essential ways this modular structure, but the syntax ought to be self-evident.

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不證自明的, 不言而喻的, 顯然的…

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