In the partisan election debate, with Tea Partiers ginning up hysteria about incipient socialism and out of control spending, the statement offers a series of common sense propositions.
I thought that would be viewed as a pretty common-sense proposition.
This common-sense proposition has long led conservation biologists to concentrate on core areas as they delineate habitats to protect, or sites to reintroduce species.
The more connected we are to other people, the less likely we are to succumb to despair — a conclusion that isn't very distant from the common-sense proposition that lonely people are often unhappy, and unhappy people are often lonely.
A peace built on the 1967 borders is a common-sense proposition and not a new one; it remains imperative, even if it looks harder and harder to achieve.
The Supreme Court acknowledged this common-sense proposition in its notorious 2010 Citizens United decision: even as they opened the door for dark money to enter our elections by allowing all corporations, including nonprofits, to spend directly on elections, the majority of Justices reaffirmed the long-standing notion that the identity of campaign donors must be disclosed.
Despite the apparent common sense of Pascal's proposition, it rests on what I — as a nonbeliever — consider dubious assumptions.
The requirement that we eliminate all contraries to some proposition, h, before we are entitled to believe that h is too stringent for ordinary contexts, for the reasons already cited, but perhaps when engaged in philosophy we have to be justified in believing that the skeptical hypothesis is false before the propositions of common sense are justified.
Proposition 47, a common sense initiative on the November ballot, gives us a critical opportunity to do all that -- and save the state money.
