(May 23, 2016 at 7:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: It is no way self-evident, in context. It is, ofc, evident. Take the common example of married bachelors. It is not by reference to the claim that there are no married bachelors or by invoking the law of non-contradiction that we establish the truth of the claim, but by description of what those terms refer.
That is actually the definition of self-evidence: the understanding of terms (i.e. to what they refer) makes the truth of the proposition understood as true. The "evidence" is contained within the meaning of the terms and their relation to each other... self-contained evidence... self-evidence...
