To understand why this unexceptional, common sense assertion is regarded as revolutionary, one must, to some extent at least, understand how the world looks to modern physicists.
That it would be easier to accept the things that we can most easily understand is almost a common-sense assertion.
Namely, complex, biosynthetic amino acids should have entered the genetic code earlier than simple, prebiotic amino acids, which is opposite to the common sense and the assertion in the coevolution theory on the origin of the genetic code [ 62- 64] (see the section " The compatibility with theories on the origin of the genetic code", newly added).
Mr. Streeter left jurors with a final plea to rely on their common sense, not on the assertions made by a defense team that had "twisted itself into knots" to distract them from seeing what was clear from the evidence.
Said Chatelle: "It's certainly natural to want to protect children, but anyone with any common sense would know such assertions are suspect".
The report's assertions make common sense: for drug cartels, government seizures are merely a modest line-item in their budgets; the "maximum" - meaning, farcically optimistic - estimate of drug seizures runs to 25% of total supply.
By designating the problem in this manner, and identifying political opponents through the ideology of crime and disorder, she was able to link her successes to a simple assertion of common sense.
Behind the cliche, though, lurked a more interesting assertion: that "common sense" could be sensibly applied via existing laws, even in the case of a technology which didn't exist when those laws were written.
But I was also drawn to this comment for its representative triteness: its lazy hostility to Sixties idealism and that catch-all bogeyman of right-wing bigotry, "political correctness," and the "common sense" brute simplemindedness of its assertion that the wondrous complexities of human gender identity are reducible to the topographies of our crotches at birth.
Other claims have required only common sense to refute, like Vishniac's assertion that he took moving footage with a camera hidden in a valise.
And while there was certainly an assertion of popular common sense in Newt Gingrich's weak fourth-place finish — it had looked, two weeks ago, like he might win — the role that unchecked Super PAC spending played in his defeat has to make one wary of what's to come.
