self-validating

There are four core arguments laid out there, but the first and third can be combined into the claim that we simply know by introspection that we have free will, and that, furthermore, this direct experience of free will is so fundamental and self-validating that any argument purporting to undermine the claim that we have it must rest on premises less certain than our own introspective evidence.

Unpersuasive Arguments for Free Will 2009

You seem to think the second conclusion is invalidated by the first, but we don't accept the second because of what it says, we accept it because of the self-validating procedure called "science" that was used to reach it.

A Public Policy Scientific Consensus? 2009

There are four core arguments laid out there, but the first and third can be combined into the claim that we simply know by introspection that we have free will, and that, furthermore, this direct experience of free will is so fundamental and self-validating that any argument purporting to undermine the claim that we have it must rest on premises less certain than our own introspective evidence.

Unpersuasive Arguments for Free Will 2009

What makes them toxic is that such speculation can be self-validating.

One Way to Stop Bear Raids 2009

As with all relationships, a relationship with God becomes self-validating.

`Believing in St. Nick' | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

So there developed a huge amount of antagonism as both sides suspected the other of base intentions and desire for power and control and no sensitivity to the others and their fears turned out to be self-validating, as more and more people on each side came to believe that their own survival would depend upon elimination of the other community.

Printing: Progressive Rabbi Michael Lerner on Israel/Gaza Interview transcript 2009

On this the two leaders built a culture of self-validating counter-terrorism, with both the absence of any threat and the presence of one can be made equally supportive.

Simon Jenkins: America, Cowering to an Imaginary Enemy, Is Not the Country I Once Knew 2009

That means that bear raids on financial institutions can be self-validating.

One Way to Stop Bear Raids 2009

So there developed a huge amount of antagonism as both sides suspected the other of base intentions and desire for power and control and no sensitivity to the others and their fears turned out to be self-validating, as more and more people on each side came to believe that their own survival would depend upon elimination of the other community.

Progressive Rabbi Michael Lerner on Israel/Gaza Interview transcript 2009

Hubbard too raised many "self-validating axioms" in Dianetics and like Rand created a comfy living out of writing bad fiction with common sense philosphy like "A is A."

Happy 101st Birthday, Ayn Rand, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009