Timeline for What is the noun for 'self-evident' or 'obvious'?
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| Feb 3, 2012 at 15:24 | comment | added | MetaEd | I do not doubt that it is a valid construction, but it seems awkward to my American ears. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 12:45 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | Alas, Wiktionary says (and my ear agrees) that "self-evidency" is always uncountable and describes a quality, not an item. That is, you can speak of "the self-evidency of" something, but speaking of something as "a self-evidency" would be an unusual usage at best. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 10:23 | history | answered | oKtosiTe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |