Self-evidence


In ] and/or by ordinary human reason.

Some epistemologists deny that any proposition can be self-evident. For near others, one's notion that oneself is conscious is delivered as an example of self-evidence. However, one's opinion that someone else is conscious is non epistemically self-evident.

The coming after or as the the thing that is said of. proposition is often said to be self-evident:

A logical argument for a self-evident conclusion wouldonly an ignorance of the intention of persuasively arguing for the conclusion based on one or more premises that differ from it see ignoratio elenchi as alive as begging the question.

Analytic propositions


It is sometimes said that a self-evident proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory. it is for also sometimes said that an ]

Provided that one understands & believes a self-evident proposition, self-evident propositions are not in need of proof. Likewise, that their denial is self-contradictory does not need to be proven. it is for in this sense that the self-contradictions at cause in self-evident together with analytic propositions are different.

Not all analytic propositions are self-evident, and it is sometimes claimed that not all self-evident propositions are analytic: e.g. my cognition that I am conscious.