单词 | self-evidence |
释义 | self-evidencen. 1. Intrinsic evidence of something's truth, obviousness, or existence. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [noun] > of its own truth self-evidence1682 1632 E. Reynolds Explic. 110th Psalme 189 That authoritie..came to the soule with more selfe-evidence, and invincible demonstration, than all the disputes of reason or learning of Philosophie could create. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 16 There is not a word but carries with it self-evidence in its Bowels. View more context for this quotation 1712 Duke of Marlborough Let. 2 June in W. Coxe Mem. John Duke of Marlborough (1819) III. cx. 539 That the public has gained very considerably by the method I put this matter in, is a truth..of a nature, that it carries self-evidence along with it. 1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence iv. §3. 87 The personality of Jesus Christ is its own self-evidence. 1986 H. P. Reeder Theory & Pract. of Husserl's Phenomenol. i. 4 Seeing, touching, smelling horses provides self-evidence for horses. 2. The quality or condition of being self-evident or of requiring no proof or explanation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [noun] apparency1604 self-evidence1652 self-evidentism1825 unmistakability1857 1652 R. Resbury Lightless-starre ii. 10 The Selfe-evidence of the thing testified by the Scriptures unto reason. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vii. 299 'Tis plain, that several other Truths, not allow'd to be Axioms, partake equally with them in this Self-evidence. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. in Biogr. Lit. (1847) II. 352 He deems that there is a certain self-evidence in Infidelity, and becomes an Atheist by intuition. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory II. 478 [Hutcheson's] writings..fetched back into the light of self-evidence many a generous trait of inward experience. 1930 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 409 These maxims are..assumed to have the merit of self-evidence, being logical axioms grounded in the nature of whole and part. 2003 Church Times 20 June 21/4 It takes religion too literally to do anything other than make statements of banal self-evidence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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