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We try to secure what’s evident. Non-evident evidence emerges only by imploding what’s evident.
Appeal to the self-evident doesn’t solve anything. First, phenomena can always show new aspects. Second, self-evidence grounds particular forms of living but it doesn’t resonate in the same way across different contexts and different forms of living. There may be reasons for self-evidentness, why one’s spade’s turned, but the reasons and the turning of the spade are context-dependent, which is the context of the disclosure. One cannot induce a vision of a disclosure in another, but one can point to phenomena in ways such that commonalities may be seen across differences.
We can show others why things are a particular way for us: ‘Look at things this way.’ ‘Yes, I can see how X is obvious, self-evident, for you.’