Similarity arguments for animal consciousness thus have roots in common sense observations.
He built with more bracing analyses concise narratives involving many examples taken directly from consumer protection studies, together with his own common sense observations and candid descriptions of his own irrational behavior.
The following things don't need to be cited in your research and final papers: Common sense observations, folklore, urban legends, and well known historical events, such as the date of the Pearl Harbor Attacks.
But it was only experience, common sense, observation.
The main reason why Ryan has this backwards comes down to a simple, common sense observation that anyone with passing knowledge of the job market should know.
Dr. Yochai Benkler of the New York University Law School said the analysis was important, because instead of starting from some theory about the politics of the court, Dr. Sirovich had used a purely mathematical analysis, yet one whose results fit with common sense observation.
Here we have a common sense observation derided in a knee-jerk fashion, much as Jimmy Carter was when he began delivering his energy speeches at the height of the oil crisis, encouraging Americans to "dial down" their thermostats to conserve heating fuel.
We do not, after all, the externalist will remind us, see this movement occur in all moral agents; some will judge it right to φ without coming to want to φ. Externalists typically take it as a point of common sense observation that wide variation exists in the impact moral judgments have on people's feelings, deliberations, and actions (Svavarsdottir 1999, 161).
This was once a common sense observation used to protect the work of journalists; what it has become is something entirely different.
This echoed his comments back in February, when he made the common sense observation that "if you just cut, if all you're thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you'll slow down the economy".
At this point, common sense, observation and experience are out the window, and the only thing left is blind faith, and why would we allow the blind person to steer the car?
