"That said," he added, "lots of runway fashion is also way out there and not likely to fit anyone's ordinary idea of usefulness, yet it doesn't receive copyright protection".
It seems clear that our thinking about the physical is anchored in part in the ordinary idea of a physical object and in part in the idea of physics.
For clearly our folk physics that is, our ordinary idea of how the physical world works–includes that the world is very regular and animal suffering and predation are a part of most people's lives, at least those who have ever owned a pet or visited a farm or are regular meat eaters.
Why expect the bearers of the most unusual and daring ideas in their field to hold ordinary ideas in other fields?
Works of art, literature, and music have their own ideas of what to do with us, and a resistance to our necessarily more ordinary ideas.
Where Agee selects one bizarre moment that reveals everything, Louvish provides a distanced analysis: "There is a clear taste emerging in these movies for highly eccentric gags, which we would today call 'surreal' and which involve ordinary ideas and gestures carried to literally lunatic extremes".
Ms. Baker seems to catch the virus that afflicts many performers and writers now entering middle age: they are suddenly struck with all sorts of insights about Life and Family and Love and Purpose, but they lack the detachment to realize that the vast majority of these are perfectly ordinary ideas, simply a part of growing older and wiser.
Even so, his rhetorical authority made it seem wise, not blasphemous, to point out that the Book of Genesis is "not only not in harmony with the ordinary ideas of mankind respecting cosmical and organic creation, but is opposed to them".
For example, J.P Guilford identified "divergent thinking" as a core feature of creative thinking which allows for production of out-of-the ordinary ideas [38].
As Crouzet states: "Making a gesture as simple as cleansing one's hands into an historic innovation certainly requires a special kind of personality, a connection to people and to the most ordinary ideas, an open mind combined with an innate goodness" (p. 100).
But "The Last Supper" began percolating in his mind, he said, some time after that, as an ordinary dramatic idea.
