Sentence examples for common sense standpoint from inspiring English sources

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"From a common sense standpoint, putting a chemical that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration deems toxic into the ground certainly can't be beneficial to the environment," said Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a nonprofit group.

"I think the City of Oakland has shown a lot of courage in managing cannabis from a common sense standpoint," said Jeff Wilcox, president of AgraMed and a member of the steering committee of the initiative to legalize marijuana.

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From a common-sense standpoint, it made sense to me to try them together.

McLeod added, "From a common-sense standpoint, I could see some reconfiguring that would make more sense regarding competitive balance and geographic rivalries".

From a common-sense standpoint, consumers should know the current price as early as possible for the effective service continuity.

The natural response (which was in effect invoked when the example was originally discussed) is to appeal to the idea of a sensory route: a series of juxtaposed and often overlapping sense-data that would be experienced in what we think of from a common-sense standpoint as moving to or approaching the location in question.

The easiest way to indicate these is by reference to the sorts of situations that, from a common-sense standpoint, produce and explain them (though the representative realist cannot, without begging the question, just assume that these situations are what is actually occurring).

Rick Stabile, the patrol commanding officer at the station, said that "when I saw the number of these and that they were all related to art galleries, just from a common-sense standpoint, I wanted to try and figure out what was going on with the community".

Similarly, certain sorts of partiality directed toward other people — friends, family members, and the like — are also forbidden by consequentialist impartiality, but regarded as justifiable, and in many cases admirable, from the standpoint of common sense (Blum 1980, Cottingham 1983, Kekes 1981, Slote 1985).

While the natural answer from the standpoint of untutored common sense is that it is public physical objects that are directly experienced, this answer — often referred to with the disparaging label "naive realism" — has been rejected by a large proportion of the philosophers who have considered this issue over the last three and one-half centuries or so.

A revisionist naturalist argues that we should follow the science where it takes us and come up with concepts that further scientific inquiry, for example, even if that means that we eventually use the language in ways that look bizarre from the standpoint of current common sense.

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