** In describing the benefits of human nature, Hume sounds almost plaintive; he asks for our belief in a minimal case for human decency.
Beginning with this minimal case, Hume, in an earlier book, "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1740), laid out a genealogy of morals.
"We're waiting for the final results tomorrow," Greenberg said from Arizona, "but all indications are that it's the most minimal case of hyperthyroidism possible.
In describing the benefits of human nature, Hume sounds almost plaintive; he asks for our belief in a minimal case for human decency.
The lesson here is if you want to use this minimal case, keep in mind that the parts are every bit as delicate as they appear to be.
Lawyers for Mr. Bakaly argued for a directed verdict of acquittal, saying the prosecution had not even made a minimal case that he had lied in denying discussing secret information.
Jurors who spoke to The Texas Tribune seemed as impressed by the state's wealth of evidence as they were shocked by the minimal case that Mr. Norwood's lawyers had presented.
It seemed an odd confidence on which to build a family — that the child would be your own, live-in Gracie Allen, and you could dine out on his errors — but I thought that perhaps he was only defining, so to speak, the minimal case.
