All 5 Uses of
self-evident
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- This last was stated without explanation or elaboration, as if the words "profit motive" were the self-evident brand of ultimate evil.†
Chpt 2.4
- The impulse of the habit of reason almost pushed her to speak, to argue, to demonstrate the self-evident-but she looked at their faces and she saw that they knew it.†
Chpt 3.3
- The boy glanced at him with indignant astonishment, as if the answer were self-evident.†
Chpt 3.5
- She spread her hands out in an astonished gesture to indicate the self-evident.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(self-evident) obviously so, or known to be true without proof