Sentence examples for common sense view from inspiring English sources

"I just take what I regard as a common sense view.

In Lord Hall's response, seen by The Times, he wrote: "The BBC takes a common sense view when deciding how to describe organisations, we take our cue from the organisation's description of itself.

Yet to an extent, this "common sense" view derives from the work of Karl Popper, from that early attempt by the latter to tackle claims of Marxism's "scientific" basis.

Kenneth L. Zimmerman Huntington Beach, Calif., July 6 , 2008• To the Editor: In "An Ideal Husband," Maureen Dowd offers Father Pat Connor's "mostly common sense" view of the negative character traits that young women should avoid in a prospective husband: abusiveness, drunkenness, financial irresponsibility and sociopathic tendencies.

Yet the Hilton case, with its sneering, jeering and cheering when she was returned to jail, merely seemed to confirm a "common sense" view that female offenders should be sent to jail, as opposed to challenging that assumption and looking more carefully at what happens to those women who are sent inside, and how we could punish them differently.

Attempts to present political systems as scientific are increasingly regarded as old-fashioned: the "common sense" view suggests that politics is not scientific, cannot be reduced to a set of principles such that it can be applied across cultures and societies.

"I want to drag both parties to the political centre, I want to make sure they are held accountable, I want to make sure some common sense views from the political centre are actually heard," Xenophon told the ABC.

On sitcoms, Chicago has a different use: in the button-down days of Bob Newhart, the city was an avatar of normalcy — Midwestern common sense viewing the nutty, hedonistic excesses of either coast with wry bemusement.

He suspects that the incommensurability between scientific and common sense views is due to incoherence in the latter.

Although both resemblance theories and causal theories begin with common sense views about how representations manage to represent what they do, these theories do not and cannot end there.

What Plato actually suggests is that Zeno aimed to show those whose superficial understanding of Parmenides had led them to charge him with flying in the face of common sense, that common sense views concerning unity and plurality are themselves riddled with latent contradictions.