adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
truth
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Sad to learn that those self-evident truths , necessary truths, faltered so badly when subjected to rigorous examination.
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What is left, it is claimed, will be self-evident truths which can be accepted as such by all open minds.
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All feminists, however, demand dignity and autonomy as self-evident truths in the finest tradition of Western social theory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is self-evident to most people that the government is under no obligation to finance the arts.
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The facts in this case are self-evident and cannot be denied.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lot of these things honestly involve real debates over ideas ... and the answers are not self-evident .
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All feminists, however, demand dignity and autonomy as self-evident truths in the finest tradition of Western social theory.
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And compared with so self-evident a need, the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant.
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Even the principle of democracy, which seems self-evident in the West is challenged elsewhere.
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Sad to learn that those self-evident truths, necessary truths, faltered so badly when subjected to rigorous examination.
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The benefits that will accrue following economic recovery are self-evident .
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The narrowness of this interpretation is self-evident .