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My belief that I am conscious is considered by many to be self-evident; your belief that I am conscious is not.
In informal or colloquial speech, "self-evident" often merely means "obvious."
Certain forms of argument from self-evidence are considered fallacious or abusive in debate. An example is the assertion that since an opponent disagrees with a (claimed self-evident) proposition, that he must have misunderstood it.
Compare with: the concepts of primitive notion and axiom in mathematics.
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