Common sense, divine revelation, historical experience, empirical testing?
Every era in a small community like Princeton has its common historical touchpoints, relatively universal experiences that offer at least an illusion of shared consciousness and interests.
Some advocates claim that civic instruction poses no threat to truth, setting aside all historical experience and common sense.
They were kin to one another not through will, not through fellow-feeling or linguistic proximity, but by reason of similar experience, of common historical situations that brought them together, at different times, in different configura-tions, and within shifting, never defini-tive borders.
A nation is a group which thinks of itself as "a people," usually because they share many things in common, such as ethnicity, language, culture, historical experience, a set of ideals and values, habitat, cuisine, fashion and so on.
Historical experience as well as common sense suggest that bond yields should fall over the next several years.
Historical experience says no.
And historical experience helps explain the differing priorities.
Agrarian commons in Slovenia share a common historical origin with other commons from Central European countries.
This historical experience was good for reform capability.
