LUCY STONE: It seems to me that the claims we make at these Conventions are self-evident truths.
The advocates of emancipation soon learned to adhere to their own great work--that of declaring the inherent right of man to himself and his earnings--and that self-evident truths needed no argument or outward authority.
And what must reason do with a book, which reduced the authority of its own principles--broke the force of self-evident truths?
Higher authority than sustains self-evident truths there can not be.
This is grandest of the self-evident truths announced, leading and governing all the rest.
Because these self-evident truths, beginning with Equality, had been set at nought by Great Britain, in her relations with our fathers, Independence was declared.
It would seem that there are two kinds of self-evident truths of perception, though perhaps in the last analysis the two kinds may coalesce.
Thus whatever self-evident truths may be obtained from our senses must be different from the sense-data from which they are obtained.
Our derivative knowledge of truths consists of everything that we can deduce from self-evident truths by the use of self-evident principles of deduction.
Higher authority than sustains self-evident truths there cannot be.
And what must reason do with a book, which reduces the authority of its own principles--breaks the force of self-evident truths?
It is clearly impossible, in a contract of government, to enumerate all the "self-evident truths" which must be acted upon in the administration of law.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evident truths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
