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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

23356	Self-evidence is most obvious when people who deny a proposition still have to use it [Epictetus]
	Full Idea: It is about the strongest proof one could offer of a proposition being evident, that even he who contradicts it finds himself having to make use of it.
	From: Epictetus (The Discourses [c.56], 2.20.01)
	A reaction: Philosophers sometimes make fools of themselves by trying, by the use of elaborate sophistry, to demolish propositions which are self-evidently true. Don't be one of these philosophers!