Those who question the law invoke experience.
Rubio is at ease invoking the experience of his immigrant parents — his father was a bartender, his mother a maid — and sometimes gives interviews in Spanish, though he has had to defend the practice against attacks from Trump.
Deep into his Presidency, he was still invoking the experience of his Kansan grandparents (his grandfather served in Patton's Army, his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line) to describe the spirit of common sacrifice and shared enterprise he wanted the nation to rediscover.
It invokes an experience of light itself as an almost tactile presence.
On the floor of the House, in campaign commercials and during interviews, Mr. Kirk has invoked his experience in the classroom.
When homeowners objected to one aspect or another of the Corps's plan, Oldham would invoke his experience with the Ash Wednesday Storm.
Asked if he might have another film in him after these two, Mr. Pritzker invoked his experience as a pop songwriter, and said he could not imagine telling stories that did not completely capture his imagination.
But, before he can look to the future, Coe invokes his experience as a competitor to illustrate the need to focus obsessively on the detail of 100 days that he accepts will make or break the Games.
He also invokes the experience of Yugoslavia to explain that in pursuing peace it is more effective for America to be involved directly in negotiations rather than leave parties to sort things out: a hint that America may not shy from squeezing its Israeli ally.
Oh, and if we're going to invoke the experience of small nations as evidence about what economic policies work, let's not forget the true economic miracle that is Iceland — a nation that was at ground zero of the financial crisis, but which, thanks to its embrace of unorthodox policies, has almost fully recovered.
But the inference does not invoke sensory experience.
