  A few words of caution are necessary concerning this ordering. First, in saying that X is more evident than Y we do not intend that X (or Y) is self-evident. To underscore this point we will often use the expressions “X is prior to Y in the evidentness order”. Second, even in the case where X is minimal in the evidentness order (within a given interpretability degree) we refrain from saying that X is self-evident; indeed if the degree is sufficiently high then this will not be the case. Third, the evidentness order is to be understood as an epistemic order and not, say, the order of conceptual complexity. Fourth, we are not saying that every two statements X and Y are comparable in the evidentness order. Indeed there are cases where there is not wide agreement on how to compare two statements in this order. However, we shall only employ the notion where there is wide agreement. 