self-evident

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An Excel spreadsheet has no self-evident order of evaluation -- the cell dependency graph can be arbitrarily complicated.

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Obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation, axiomatic.

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adjective

Obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation, axiomatic.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for self-evident.

adjective

Obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation, axiomatic.

Example sentences

An Excel spreadsheet has no self-evident order of evaluation -- the cell dependency graph can be arbitrarily complicated.

It seems self-evident that the manufacturers of ShooTag would not find such a test desirable, in any case.

You're right, it is self-evident to me that group productivity is not the aggregate of individual productivity.

I think the success is pretty self-evident?

The first two are mostly self-evident...in terms of improving the bottom-line...well, I often go to the NYT for breaking news.

I see a bunch of pretty much self-evident statements about quality of work produced in sweatshops.

I'd think the complexity side of the sudo strategy is self-evident, so perhaps I'm not understanding the part that needs explaining.

I had hoped that the satire of the first two grafs was self-evident [1].

It is self-evident to me (and I presume every other software engineer here) that different architectures lend themselves to different types of change.

It's not there because at this point, it's self-evident.

Usually certification does not required for a gifted artist, because his abilities are self-evident, but for low-skilled craft man to prove that he possibly could not fail.

I though this is self-evident and does not require an elaborate explanation.

Quote examples

Why do people who use the "face the consequences of his actions" argument consider it so self-evident?

I figured that business strategy was pretty self-evident when I said "first mover advantage," so didn't explicitly spell it out.

It's fun to guess at what's happening but folks should be shunning people who present their ideas as "self-evident" without presenting any actual evidence.

The Declaration of Independence describes our reason for instituting a government at all: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.