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    It is not the case that Self-evident propositions have no logical reason for their truth — they are true by themselves alone, not inferred from any other proposition.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' shows that basic propositions gain their status from within a holistic framework of practices, not in isolation.
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    • 2.A proposition that requires a conceptual framework to be recognized as true is not grounded in itself alone, but in that framework.
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    • 3.Therefore, what appears self-evident is epistemically dependent on prior structural commitments, undermining the claim of groundless self-sufficiency.
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    • 1.Wilfrid Sellars's 'Myth of the Given' demonstrates that no proposition is epistemically basic absent its inferential relations to other beliefs.
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    • 2.If grasping a self-evident proposition requires possessing the relevant concepts, then its epistemic force derives partly from one's conceptual competence, not the proposition alone.
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    • 1.A self-evident proposition is one whose truth does not derive from any other proposition.
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    • 2.If a proposition's evidence lay in something else (e.g., our conviction of it), then that proposition would not be self-evident.
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