When people say something is obvious they usually merely mean that it is apparent. Very subtle linguistic technique to smuggle in a truth-claim.
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is your contention that saying "unemployment has been the most tangible cost of the recession" would have an identical meaning?
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Without looking up definitions, to me apparent means "clearly appears to be true", where obvious means "indisputably true".
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