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hwold comments on Open Thread, Jun. 8 - Jun. 14, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hwold 16 June 2015 03:18:31PM 0 points [-]

"évidence" the noun is just a shorthand for "obvious thing" (most typical usage is « C’est l’évidence même » = “It’s obvious”. « Ce n’est pas la peine d’asséner de telles évidences » = “Such obvious things are not worth stating”).