How To Use Commonsense In A Sentence
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A ha'porth of commonsense's sometimes worth volumes of statutes.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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If you are aiming almost for pure comedy, then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense.
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One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points.
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First, none of these critics of a commonsense doctrine of agency deny that the subject or representations of the subject exert significant effects, nor do they deny the subject a kind of social effectivity or agency.
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Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect.
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Had the word commonsense not become such a meaningless term I'd almost be tempted to use it.
Workers of the world, divide!
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This is a victory for commonsense and we want to applaud the Minister for standing with the people on this issue.
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Sadly the innocent fall prey to it, and commonsense is out the window. on March 22, 2008 at 11: 15 pm | Reply XTP
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I was a feckless young man, without direction, commonsense, or gumption.
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I am here using the word preposterous in its dictionary sense of "contrary to nature, reason or commonsense," for in the light of modern scientific knowledge, human behavior is, demonstrably, characterized by the interaction of cultural and biological variables, and, as Melvin Konner has recently put it "an analysis of the causes of human nature that tends to ignore either the genes or the environmental factors may be safely discarded.
Evolving Margaret Mead
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The guide contains commonsense recommendations covering situations such as meetings in strangers' offices and homes, walking home alone and car breakdowns.
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LOTHIAN: So, in a little-noticed memo sent around last month, the Office of Management and Budget made what it calls commonsense changes to provide more accurate data.
CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010
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Here, a moment of a nonsticky tactile sensation – the conceptually implied object being signified by the conceptual cognition of feeling a commonsense orange held in our hand – is followed by a moment of a sticky tactile sensation.
The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation
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He was a classical example of a brilliant man, an academic, who lacked commonsense and elementary manners.
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The indeterminacy of the relations between commonsense impartiality and other ethical considerations means that commonsense impartiality resists the kind of systematisation that moral theory demands.
Bernard Williams
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Can someone tell us what commonsense reasoning the highway officials are applying here?
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The fortition of laryngeals before the sibilant is just commonsense linguistics and doesn't require a more fanciful explanation beyond that.
Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person
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CROWLEY: In five stops through southeastern Missouri, Talent mentioned same-sex marriage and abortion in most of them, reaching out to the base with what he calls commonsense Missouri values.
CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006
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She was defending what she calls commonsense conservatism.
CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009
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All this after I had the commonsense to slow to a halt amid a growing pack of confused motorists.
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The debate has left the gravitational pull of commonsense.
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He imported the commonsense realist philosophy, which included a demand that individuals be responsible for public affairs.
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Commonsense shrieked at me not to let a drop pass my lips, but it was irresistible, like musty goat's cheese straight from the liquidizer.
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This research is concerned with commonsense ideas about emotion and with the way people act upon information about their emotional state.
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In his view, design is ninety-eight percent commonsense and two percent a magic ingredient to do with aesthetics.
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commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius
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The program's underlying logic is also now reflected in an orderly and commonsense interface which reflects this awesome program's true power.
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The penalty imposed by law is not draconian, and serves more as a reminder to perform a commonsense action.
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Kant's analysis of commonsense ideas begins with the thought that the only thing good without qualification is a ˜good will™.
Kant's Moral Philosophy
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Labor says the Prime Minister's been forced into an embarrassing backdown, labelling it a victory for commonsense.
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A lot of his article is commonsense, but written in a disarming and captivating manner.
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Accepting that you have zero volume control over another person 's oral output is just commonsense.
Times, Sunday Times
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Commonsense now dictates that it would be wise to sell a few shares.
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Though many philosophers believe that CTM can provide the best scientific explanations of cognition and behavior, there is disagreement over whether such explanations will vindicate the commonsense psychological explanations of prescientific RTM.
Mental Representation
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But what we called commonsense views, after all, can be analysed and ought to be analysed.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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A jury is a bastion of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it.
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Success i -- ore a function of consistent commonsense than it is of genius.
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And he was making comments this morning about what he calls additional commonsense measures that should be put into place: closing gun show loopholes, enacting laws requiring child safety locks on all guns, and requiring that all laws prevent juveniles from having access to any assault weapons.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Jim Brady Pleas For More Gun Control - March 28, 2001
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Joe the Plumber, who found his name repeated again and again by Barack Obama and John McCain during one of the 2008 presidential debates, has somehow bubbled up, like some kind of backflow, into the debate over Proposition B, the ballot measure to bring commonsense standards to large-scale dog breeding operations in the largest of the puppy mill states.
Wayne Pacelle: Playing Politics with Puppy Mill Abuse
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As a philosopher, he was known for offering a commonsense, pragmatic approach to those theoretical issues that he knew required clarity.
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He said he started the site after seeing a need for a place where like-minded people could share their concerns and ideas on prepping and insisted being ready for worst-case scenarios was commonsense.
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The inference is valid because it leads to valid cognitions of moments of sticky sensations following moments of nonsticky sensations whenever validly conceptually cognizing the feeling of a commonsense orange in our hand.
The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation
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Because a few days ago they linked to WebMD's symptom checker, which is an arbitrary mix of commonsense medicine and diseases lifted from the Hypochondriac Hall of Fame that back pain could be a muscle strain... or dermatomyositis... or kidney cancer!
Archive 2007-07-01
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Marvellous news - commonsense prevails," said Gordon Wilcock, professor of clinical geratology at Oxford University.
The Guardian World News
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If a child presents insuperable problems courts will interpret legislation in a commonsense way.
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He was a classical example of a brilliant man, an academic, who lacked commonsense and elementary manners.
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Accepting that you have zero volume control over another person 's oral output is just commonsense.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a strong commonsense notion of intergenerational continuity in behavior.
