Timeline for Is there a specific word for "goes without being said"?
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 0:37 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Not at all. What you're Asking about does not and never could "go without being said." Other examples might work. You might think - even rightly - an author was male or female and until you could prove that by reference to the text, you would never be entitled to assert that belief. An example might indeed be "… this author is female because she says..." but how could that ever "go without being said"? Assuming an author is female through details of the text, you have either your own prejudice or a great deal of justification to work with. Which would work better for you? | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 13:02 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jun 24, 2015 at 7:55 | vote | accept | ygnim | ||
| Jun 24, 2015 at 7:55 | vote | accept | ygnim | ||
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 21:41 | comment | added | OJFord | FYI, "goes without saying" is more idiomatic than "~being said" | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 14:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @RexYuan What do dictionaries say? | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 13:11 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | It goes without being said... | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:29 | comment | added | RexYuan | @EdwinAshworth Are "self-evident" and "self-explanatory" the same? | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 11:52 | answer | added | user126109 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 4:38 | vote | accept | ygnim | ||
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| S Jun 21, 2015 at 0:22 | history | suggested | user124384 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 0:04 | comment | added | shawnt00 | I think maybe "infer" fits better with the first one. | |
| Jun 20, 2015 at 23:22 | answer | added | MichaelChirico | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 20:12 | comment | added | alephzero | I think the verb "to imply" sounds better that the adjective "implicit" in the first example. "I think the details of (or in) the provided text imply that this author is female, for example when she says ...". But the second example is different. In the first one, you are making a deduction from the information you have. In the second one, person A is just copying what everybody else around him did in his country, not thinking out for himself how to pick up the food. It is "Customary", traditional", "cultural", or "conventional" to pick up the food that way. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 20:04 | answer | added | Ricky Mutschlechner | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:54 | answer | added | user3453281 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | 4444 | You'd probably need to rephrase your sentences to make it fit, but I'm surprised nobody has yet suggested tacit. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Apodeictic' means 'self-evidently true'. 'Axiomatic' means 'self-evident' or 'unquestionable'. But the second is very formal, the first rarefied. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | talrnu | @MarkBannister Perhaps technically, but in practice it sounds strange. Consider that (in my opinion, at least) the most succinct word for the second example is natural or perhaps instinct, which feels odd to replace with implicit. I think implicit tends to be used in the context of expression, e.g. in the definition you cite OED uses the example of a school's ethos, i.e. their expression of their beliefs and values. In other words, something can be called implicit if it can be implied, and I don't think the act of implication fits the asker's second example at all. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:47 | answer | added | Frank H. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:29 | answer | added | mbomb007 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:16 | answer | added | PCARR | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | Vincent | At least one answer is obvious... | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 16:44 | comment | added | John Lawler | The technical term is presupposed. The phenomenon is known as Presupposition. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 16:17 | answer | added | user109460 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 15:58 | answer | added | rbp | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 15:39 | answer | added | Phil McKerracher | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 15:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/611918595136856064 | ||
| Jun 19, 2015 at 14:48 | answer | added | James | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 14:39 | answer | added | Lara | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 14:16 | answer | added | Germane Jackson | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 14:03 | answer | added | Misti | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 13:47 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 13:17 | comment | added | user11752 | @PeterShor: actually, the second definition given in oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/implicit fits the second example quite well. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 13:12 | answer | added | mindfultrails | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:28 | answer | added | user11752 | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:26 | answer | added | Scribblemacher | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:26 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I think you're looking for "implicitly" for your first example. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work for your second example. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | landocalrissian | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 12:15 | history | asked | ygnim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |