| 单词 | self-evident truth |
| 例句 | Would the American Declaration of Independence hold as a self-evident truth that all members of the genus Homo are created equal? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His message was, rather patriotically, the self-evident truth that we are all created equal, that we are all entitled to safety and happiness. Mister Rogers was actually a badass: New film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” shows his tough side 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z In the end a guard tells one of the convicts the self-evident truth: "We can only have one winner." Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z But it’s become a self-evident truth that the correlation between Oscars and actual merit is arbitrary at best. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z The only self-evident truth in the Constitution is that it was the work of a committee who haggled over every word. Two cheers for the Declaration of Independence: The weird, contradictory and radical vision of human equality that America couldn’t handle 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z That self-evident truth was on vivid display throughout the recall. Column: Will the recall loss jolt the California GOP out of its death spiral? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z This allergy to self-evident truth didn’t happen all at once, of course. Opinion | Jeff Flake: In today’s Republican Party, there is no greater offense than honesty 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Pitts states that Black Lives Matter is a self-evident truth, and I find myself saying it more and more, and rejoice every time I see it proclaimed. Black Lives Matter: ‘Stand with humanity for humanity’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s only ever been a home: where whiteness hovers over us Black folk, as perennial as old Jefferson’s duplicitous self-evident truth. Opinion | Who Gets to Be a ‘Naked Athena’? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z As the Declaration of Independence promises, all people are born with these rights – all people are participants to that self-evident truth that they are indeed created equal. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In fact, the Confederacy was about upholding the institution of slavery in a nation that pretends to hold the equality of all as self-evident truth. What if we treated Confederate symbols the way we treated the defeated Nazis? | John Semley 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Bolstering Joyner’s optimism was the self-evident truth that all athletics records eventually fall. Inside the Race to Break the Two-Hour Marathon 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z He degraded black soldiers who fought Hitler as physically and morally incompetent and said that “racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth” and the “law of God”. The problem with BJoe iden's 'chummy' politics | Nathan Robinson 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z A person does not need to be a great jurist or philosopher to comprehend that self-evident truth. Mueller report: A harsh indictment of Donald Trump — and also of America's leadership class 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is speaking a self-evident truth about our reality. Chris Hedges: Democrats may well lose to Trump again, and Bernie Sanders is "naive" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The key is to present his assumed identity as a self-evident truth. The Man Who Captures Criminals for the D.E.A. by Playing Them 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z They’ll note the self-evident truth that prejudice is confined to no one culture or color. Thank you, Starbucks, for copping to the reality of implicit bias 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z He said Americans were celebrating that "self-evident truth" that "no matter what the colour of our skin or the place of our birth, we are all created equal by God". African countries ask for Trump apology 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z This is probably a world record for revealing a self-evident truth. Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Equality for poor white men like Jackson was anything but Thomas Jefferson’s “self-evident truth.” Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson and American “greatness”: There are valid parallels — but not in a good way 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z In this world, Hughes’s observation is the last self-evident truth: Facts are a thing of the past. Trump’s outrageous lies come straight from big businesses’ playbook 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z That was what the founders had in mind when they based the Declaration of Independence on the self-evident truth that all are created equal. Editorials from around New England 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z One might see this as less a sinister point than self-evident truth, but no matter. Dan Brown: cracking the code of his enduring appeal 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z This revolution in thinking, which ultimately undermined European imperialism, was announced by the Declaration of Independence and its assertion of the self-evident truth of human equality. Straight Talk About Christopher Columbus 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Despite this self-evident truth, the U.S. military has long been the pioneer in devising rationales for fighting such a war via ever more “modernized” weapons systems. Endless war, endless greed: The Pentagon is lining its pockets with taxpayer dollars 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z This is ahistorical wishful thinking presented as self-evident truth. Al Franken did not cause Donald Trump: Yet another lousy explanation for why the GOP is self-destructing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet our national political discussion never reflects any of this self-evident truth. Science Is Important, So Why Aren't Politicians Talking About It? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z We spent nearly half an hour on Abraham Lincoln, and why in the Gettysburg Address he had called the principle of human equality a “proposition” instead of a self-evident truth, as Thomas Jefferson had done. A Professor Who Put Teaching First 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “The Round of Mound of Rebound” got in trouble for stating a self-evident truth. We Shouldn't Take Jonah Hill’s Apology Seriously 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z This Declaration marked a tremendous advance in the story of freedom, yet it also contained a contradiction: Some of the same men who signed their names to this self-evident truth owned other men as property. GOP’s shameful decline on race: While Bush celebrated Voting Rights Act, DeMint’s ignorance now reigns 2014-04-15T17:02:00Z "While I acknowledge the self-evident truth that we - all of us - may, through our actions, make ourselves safer or more vulnerable to crime, that is not even remotely the same thing as justifying assault." Nick Ross defends rape comments 2013-05-27T04:29:21Z I know it’s kind of a self-evident truth. | Jeff Weiner: Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, on the ‘Next Play’ Philosophy 2012-11-10T20:29:43Z In defence of this sublime and self-evident truth the war was waged and won. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z The Prince smiled again, as though a self-evident truth had just been completely demonstrated. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z This Declaration marked a tremendous advance in the story of freedom, yet it also contained a contradiction: Some of the same men who signed their names to this self-evident truth owned other men as property. GOP’s shameful decline on race: While Bush celebrated Voting Rights Act, DeMint’s ignorance now reigns 2014-04-15T17:02:00Z It is self-evident truth that if the speed of a motor is doubled it travels twice as many degrees in the time necessary to lower the pressure. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z That Space is illimitable, is unquestionably a self-evident truth. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It is what we call "an axiom"—a self-evident truth. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z An axiom is a self-evident truth, an immovable, unchangeable fact. Praying for Money 2011-07-31T02:00:09.523Z It was a self-evident truth, too, that, for the sake of democracy, for the sake of the future of our country, the autonomy of the small nations must be preserved. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Mr. Whewell admits the law in question to be a truth; he only denies that it is a necessary or self-evident truth. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z It is a self-evident truth, which will not admit of argument, that nothing remains nothing. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z It was reserved for a deluded doctor of the rival Seminary of Brigston to promulgate doubts of a self-evident truth. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Board of Education "destroyed" the Constitution and that segregation was the "correct, self-evident truth" and "the law of nature." The GOP's new fake racial history 2010-09-02T11:01:00Z I wondered if he was being ironic but his friend agreed with him, giving the sort of sigh that acknowledges a self-evident truth. Argentina's romantic view of the beautiful game may be holding them back 2010-08-25T13:28:00Z For if it did not appear self-evident to those philosophers who lived before Galileo, it was because they did not bestow sufficient reflection upon the subject, and not because it was not a self-evident truth. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z However, he discovered one refreshing and self-evident truth in this home of mystery. "Pip" A Romance of Youth What conception of the life to come Apollonius entertained we cannot say; but its reality to him was a self-evident truth. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Ax�iom, a universal proposition, which the understanding must perceive to be true as soon as it perceives the meaning of the words, and therefore called a self-evident truth: e.g. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Legislation that does not square with the self-evident truth and justice of this dictum is bad legislation, and must prove maleficent to the nation, state, or city that enacts it. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses In the first place, it may be proved through the principle of causality, which is a self-evident truth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" This statement will have for people of average common sense the same self-evident truth as to say that straight cannot be crooked nor crooked straight. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" It will hereafter be shown that this "self-evident truth" has never been denied by the people of this country, in their fundamental constitution, or in any other explicit or authoritative manner. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Another self-evident truth is, that no such removal can be effected merely by the presentation of selfish inducements, or without resorting to coercive measures. Thoughts on African Colonization My own mental comment was, "If anything could make me such a fool as to doubt this self-evident truth, your arguments and the inflections of your voice would certainly make me do so." Memoirs of Life and Literature That the world is badly ordered for humanity is a self-evident truth of which the observant scarcely need reminding. The Curse of Education Nothing saves so much trouble in thinking as the acceptance of a good sounding generality or a self-evident truth. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The founders of this nation asserted with great emphasis and every variety of repetition, the essential equality of human rights as a self-evident truth. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III We assert that man can not hold property in man, and reject the whole code of laws that conflicts with the self-evident truth of that assertion. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is a self-evident truth that an attribute is something different from the essence of a thing. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy This fundamental and self-evident truth is continually overlooked in our present age. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 To them Church authority was supreme, and every catholic dogma a self-evident truth. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) A self-evident truth or proposition, that cannot be made plainer by demonstration. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Only see how long we have been laboring to convert people to the one self-evident truth that a man has a right to himself; and where are we now after a quarter of a century? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I But when we accept the doctrine of 'ends' this harmless and self-evident truth is perverted into the statement that our 'end' must be our own pleasure; that we cannot be really or directly unselfish. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The principle on which deductive reasoning depends is the self-evident truth that "whatever is true of the whole is true of the parts." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism It needs no great religion to feel this; it is a self-evident truth to those who have much experience of the world. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) Why, the self-evident truth that you are forcing me rather brutally to pay the full price of my weakness in coming here, in permitting myself the indulgence of seeing you again. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The founders of this Republic claimed and asserted with great emphasis, the essential equality of human rights as a self-evident truth. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I This self-evident truth, when it struck home to her well-wishers, made her no friends. Flamsted quarries The ground of the acceptance is to be simply the self-evident beauty and therefore the self-evident truth of the Christ here set forth. The Chief End of Man Their decrees are founded upon self-evident truth, and are therefore the law. Skylark Three This struck Patty as a self-evident truth, but she was perfectly willing to state it. Just Patty Resist, let the case be tried in the courts; be your own lawyers; base your cause on the admitted self-evident truth, that taxation and representation are inseparable. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I But is it a self-evident truth, that there can be no substance in nature excepting such as is self-existent and eternal? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws The inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, in their natural rights, which, as we had solemnly declared to be a self-evident truth, were theirs beyond question, have committed acts of barbarism. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It is a self-evident truth that all humanity is the creation of God. The Promulgation of Universal Peace It is in this self-evident truth that is found a sure ground of confidence. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Hence politics adopts as its second self-evident truth, the proposition that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"? Is it a self-evident truth that man, with his distinct personality and individual consciousness, is a mere "mode" or affection of another being? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws She uttered this with so evident a sense of its obviousness as a self-evident truth that none of us had the courage to brave her surprise by asking an explanation. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales I should say at least that that was a self-evident truth. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 But we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men are born free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Yet in spite of the self-evident truth of this historical preposition we know little about life and thought in the watershed years when Europe was ceasing to be Roman but was not yet medieval. Medieval People Is it a self-evident truth that the ape, the lizard, and the worm are equally "modes" of the same substance with the angel and the seraph? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws This does not mean that every self-evident truth will be immediately accepted because there are many things that interfere with the acceptance of truth. In His Image We assert that man cannot hold property in man, and reject the whole code of laws that conflicts with the self-evident truth of the assertion. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 We speak sometimes as though the love of God was a self-evident truth altogether independent of the facts of New Testament history. The Teaching of Jesus That she herself was not indifferent I soon had reason to regard as a self-evident truth. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Is it a self-evident truth that extension and thought are equally expressive of the uncreated Essence and necessary "attributes" of the Eternal? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him—search him; the reason may be found in his pocket. In His Image How can a system, built upon a stout and impudent denial of self-evident truth—a system of treating men like cattle—operate? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 It is a self-evident truth that, if supplies of the staple food fall, the number of cities will be reduced correspondingly. Down with the Cities Jane cast about for a way to explain what seemed to her a self-evident truth. The Conflict Is it a self-evident truth that no being can exist in nature otherwise than by development out of the Divine substance, and that the creation of a distinct but dependent being is impossible? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws "All truth" must surely be such self-evident truth as to admit of no further dissensions. The Conquest of Fear The paragraph is a chain of four links, each of which is claimed to be a self-evident truth. Slavery Ordained of God And it is a self-evident truth that people will pay high taxes cheerfully only so long as they themselves are making plenty of money easily. The Gray Dawn It seemed that whatever her imagination suggested, bore to her the impress of self-evident truth; and that she knew no higher reality. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 He spoke quite simply, without a trace of flattery, as if he were merely putting into words a self-evident truth. The Nest Builder Seward's friends, and Seward himself, assumed as a self-evident truth, that "where Seward sits is the head of the table." The Life of Abraham Lincoln But I disagree with you as to their truth, and I say that not one of said affirmations is a self-evident truth, or a truth at all. Slavery Ordained of God Yet it was not till the second half of the nineteenth century that this great, almost self-evident truth had won a hearing in the world! Far Away and Long Ago It has been said that nothing is more difficult than to demonstrate a self-evident truth. Dawn It appears to us a self-evident truth that whatever the Gospel is designed to destroy at any period of the world, being contrary to it, ought now to be abandoned. The Kingdom of God Is Within You This is the mere statement of a self-evident truth. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography And, therefore, those five sentences in that second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence are not the truth; so, then, it is not self-evident truth that all men are created equal. Slavery Ordained of God Then he uttered what must have been to every citizen of understanding a self-evident truth, "I am working for my pockets all the time." The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization To the inhabitants of this section it appeared to be a self-evident truth that the white race was born to rule and the black race was born to serve. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm I should say at least that that is a self-evident truth. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Only the self-evident truth that no philosophy of order -- except the Church -- had ever satisfied the philosopher reconciled the conservative Christian anarchist to prove his own. The Education of Henry Adams M. Renan is giving expression to an almost self-evident truth, when he says that religious development is no longer to proceed by way of sectarian proselytism, but by way of harmonious internal development. The Unseen World and Other Essays And its awfulness is enhanced by its self-evident truth. The Life of John Bunyan |
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