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  • an axiom.
  • Humans are people, too!
  • Watch any sports broadcast and you will hear an endless stream: "The team that makes the fewest mistakes will probably win" The losing team always "didn't execute our gameplan" "when they score a lot of points they have a good chance of winning"
  • All right angles are equal to one another.
  • From the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights.....
  • "Cogito Errgo Sum," I Think, Therefore I Am. -Rene Descartes
  • People are funny; they want the front of the bus, Middle of the road, And back of the church.
  • You are reading this.
  • This water is wet.
  • "In epistemology (theory of knowledge), 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 propositions are often said to be self-evident: A finite whole is greater than any of its parts It is impossible for the something to be and not be at the same time in the same manner. Certain forms of argument from self-evidence are considered fallacious or abusive in debate. For example, if a proposition is claimed to be self-evident, it is an argumentative fallacy to assert that disagreement with the proposition indicates misunderstanding of it." "Informal speech: In informal speech, self-evident often merely means obvious, but the epistemological definition is more strict. Moral propositions: Moral propositions can also be said to be self-evident. For example, Alexander Hamilton cited the following moral propositions as self-evident in the Federalist No. 37: The means ought to be proportioned to the end. Every power ought to be commensurate with its object. There ought to be no limitation of a power destined to effect a purpose which is itself incapable of limitation. A famous claim of the self-evidence of a moral truth is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"; philosophically, that proposition is not necessarily self-evident, and the subsequent propositions surely are not. Nevertheless, many would agree that the proposition we ought to treat subjects known to be equal in a certain sense equally in regard to that sense is morally self-evident. Thus, as Thomas Jefferson proposed, one can hold the propositions to be self-evident as the basis for practical, even revolutionary, behaviours." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-evidence "Indefinables are concepts so global that they cannot be defined; rather, in a sense, they themselves, and the objects to which they refer, define our reality and our ideas. Their meanings cannot be stated in a true definition, but their meanings can be referred to instead by being placed with their incomplete definitions in self-evident statements, the truth of which can be tested by whether or not it is impossible to think the opposite without a contradiction. Thus, the truth of indefinable concepts and propositions using them is entirely a matter of logic. An example of the above is that of the concepts "finite parts" and "wholes"; they cannot be defined without reference to each other and thus with some amount of circularity, but we can make the self-evident statement that "the whole is greater than any of its parts", and thus establish a meaning particular to the two concepts." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-ought_problem Further information: - "Can anything be self-evident?": http://groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/browse_thread/thread/dba352ca4f21bce3 - "the self-evident statement": http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/2042/3315/1/07+TEXTE.pdf - "self-evident my ass!": http://www.kith.org/journals/vardibidian/2005/10/12/10015.html - "When may I call something self-evident?": http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080620142138AAKjCHw
  • It's hard to meditate on methamphetamine.
  • Record breaking heat makes me feel kind of hot.
  • I could.
  • This statement is.
  • Wow that sun is freakin bright man!
  • Seven days without sex makes one 'week'.
  • "I am my world" Without me there is no world for me.
  • A dog is a dog Perhaps =)
  • You are reading this sentence.
  • This sentence contains five words.
  • Republicans are morally bankrupt
  • You are reading my words.
  • You are.
  • You are reading what I am writing in response to the question above.

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