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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-EVIDENCE

self-evidence  [ˌsɛlfˈɛvɪdəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-EVIDENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Evidence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-EVIDENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-evidence

In epistemology, a self-evident proposition is one that is known to be true by understanding its meaning without proof. Some epistemologists deny that any proposition can be self-evident. For most others, the belief that oneself is conscious is offered as an example of self-evidence. However, one's belief that someone else is conscious is not epistemically self-evident. The following proposition is often said to be self-evident: ▪ A finite whole is greater than, or equal to, any of its parts A logical argument for a self-evident conclusion would demonstrate only an ignorance of the purpose of persuasively arguing for the conclusion based on one or more premises that differ from it.

Definition of self-evidence in the English dictionary

The definition of self-evidence in the dictionary is the fact of something containing its own evidence or proof without need of further demonstration.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELF-EVIDENCE


abidance
əˈbaɪdəns
avoidance
əˈvɔɪdəns
cadence
ˈkeɪdəns
coincidence
kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns
confidence
ˈkɒnfɪdəns
counterevidence
ˌkaʊntərˈɛvɪdəns
diffidence
ˈdɪfɪdəns
dissidence
ˈdɪsɪdəns
evidence
ˈɛvɪdəns
guidance
ˈɡaɪdəns
improvidence
ɪmˈprɒvɪdəns
incidence
ˈɪnsɪdəns
misguidance
ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdəns
nonevidence
ˌnɒnˈevɪdəns
overconfidence
ˌəʊvəˈkɒnfɪdəns
precedence
ˈprɛsɪdəns
providence
ˈprɒvɪdəns
residence
ˈrɛzɪdəns
riddance
ˈrɪdəns
subsidence
səbˈsaɪdəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-EVIDENCE

self-educated
self-education
self-effacement
self-effacing
self-effacingly
self-elected
self-employed
self-employment
self-esteem
self-evaluation
self-evident
self-evidently
self-examination
self-examining
self-excited
self-exculpatory
self-executing
self-existence
self-existent
self-explaining

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-EVIDENCE

angle of incidence
at your convenience
correspondence
credence
crisis of confidence
decadence
Declaration of Independence
dependence
documentary evidence
hall of residence
in confidence
in evidence
in residence
independence
interdependence
jurisprudence
letters of credence
prudence
self-confidence
transcendence
vote of no confidence

Synonyms and antonyms of self-evidence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-evidence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-EVIDENCE

Find out the translation of self-evidence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-evidence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-evidence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自明
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autoevidencia
570 millions of speakers

English

self-evidence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म सबूत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أدلة الذاتي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

очевидность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto-evidência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বত: সিদ্ধতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

évidence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bukti diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbstverständlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己の証拠
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 증거
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bukti dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự bằng chứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய ஆதாரங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची पुरावा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini kanıtlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- evidenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oczywistość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

очевидність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- dovezi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - αποδείξεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- bewyse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självklarhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

self- bevis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-evidence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-EVIDENCE»

The term «self-evidence» is normally little used and occupies the 141.234 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-EVIDENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-evidence» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-evidence» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-evidence

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-EVIDENCE»

Discover the use of self-evidence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-evidence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Weaving Self-evidence: A Sociology of Logic
Weaving Self-Evidence will interest students and researchers in sociology and the history and philosophy of science and technology, and anyone curious about how scientists work. "This is a beautifully crafted book.
Claude Rosental, 2008
2
Labour of love: beyond the self-evidence of everyday life
The book is an invitation to reconsider the conditions for gender equality and to explore further the cultural tangle behind this persistent tolerance for injustice within European thinking.
Tordis Borchgrevink, Øystein Gullvåg Holter, 1995
3
Interpreting Husserl: Critical and Comparative Studies
2 Self-evidence, says Husserl, is 'an 'experiencing' of something that is, and is thus; it is precisely a mental seeing of something itself'.3 The object which is intended is also given; and furthermore, it is given just as it is intended. To encounter ...
David Carr, 1987
4
The Concept of Knowledge
Self-Evidence. THE GENERAL NOTION of evidence sufficient for knowledge is clear enough. Such evidence guarantees the truth of the proposition known ; it renders a mistake impossible. In the case of derivative knowledge a paradigm of  ...
Panayot Butchvarov, 1970
5
Rational Egoism: A Selective and Critical History
tion to self-evidence, they must have the highest certainty, (e.g., ME 211-12, 373~ 86)9 And when he applies these tests to common-sense morality, he is willing to use any of the tests to discredit a claim to self- evidence. I think the laxness is ...
Robert Shaver, 1999
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Experience and Judgment
If, within the manifold of judgments pregiven to us, we have thus separated self- evident judgments capable of being carried out again in their original self- evidence from those which are not self-evident and are not capable of attaining it, this is ...
Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Landgrebe, 1973
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Discovering Existence with Husserl
The nature of identification and its relations with self-evidence allows us to answer this question. The process of identification can be infinite. But it is concluded in self-evidence — in the presence of the object in person before consciousness.
Emmanuel Levinas, Richard A. Cohen, Michael B. Smith, 1998
8
Finding and Confirming Truth
A problem of self-contradiction exists here, however, because “self-evidence” proposes, on the one hand, that we do not need anything other than a true statement in order to know the truth of that statement, but then, on the other hand, it also ...
John Pletz, 2010
9
The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value
this,28 but there is no need for intuitionism, either as a moral epistemology positing intuitive knowledge of moral principles, or as an ethical pluralism, to deny it.29 Hard and Soft Self-Evidence To see why this point has often been missed, ...
Robert Audi, 2009
10
Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism
THE PROBLEM OF ERROR It was relatively easy to legitimate the notion of [self-] evidence as the primordial mode of intentionality, by opposing it to unauthentic acts of consciousness. A more delicate problem is raised if we examine the ...
Đức Thảo Trần, Robert Sonné Cohen, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-EVIDENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-evidence is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Turning the Tables on Global Self-Evidence
Empty prisons, abandoned shipyards, derelict factories—in the past couple of decades these raw and unpolished places have become very popular as locations ... «ArtSlant, Jul 15»
2
Goodman-Birtcher conditional use terms approved in South Middleton
“They worked that out to a degree among themselves (26 conditions),” Faley continued. “Made our job a hell of a lot easier. By doing that, it's just self-evidence ... «The Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
Reflections for the Fourth
In the more than two centuries since, we have struggled and sometimes fought over the precise scope of those truths --- self-evidence often in the eye of the ... «Durham Herald Sun, Jul 15»
4
Is our universe actually a hologram?
It might seem self-evidence that the universe is three-dimensional, but a new theory is starting to gain some traction: that the universe is a two-dimensional ... «Nature World Report, Apr 15»
5
The Charlesworth case is a technicality, and places a burden on her
... between guilt and innocence; but this occurred by singular persistence of one juror until the self-evidence turned, and the jury found the accused innocent. «Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Apr 15»
6
Disarm the Police
... police violence? The 'self-evidence' of the need for police is premised on maintenance of a social order that has violent repression as its 'logical' outcome. «CounterPunch, Apr 15»
7
Torture is tamasic
Apparently the CIA stopped believing in the “self-evidence” of the fact that all humans are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I realize that world ... «Patheos, Dec 14»
8
Antwerp: Karel Fonteyne Tales of Silence
Every composition is unexpected: he avoids every self-evidence, every fulfilment of a banal expectation. The woman and men who each in their own way seem ... «The Eye of Photography, Oct 14»
9
Energy Geopolitics and the US 'Mission' in Iraq and Syria
The war against IS has taken on an air of self-evidence in the U.S. media without many details being put forward to support it. 'Defeating terrorism' has been the ... «CounterPunch, Sep 14»
10
Art All Over
... Pop's mirroring of mass culture, minimalism's at-a-glance self-evidence, conceptualism's recourse to boundless thought, installation art's funhouse sociability. «The New Yorker, Aug 14»

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