The historian Eric Foner told me, "In the sense of who decides, and how do you decide what goes up and what comes down, it should be a sort of democratic process," to compensate for the undemocratic process that created the monuments during Jim Crow.
But note that his objection to Hart's theory of law could be framed differently, without mentioning semantics or language at all: it is an argument that Hart was wrong to think that participants in a legal system share a rule of recognition, in the sense of an agreed way of deciding what rules are valid under the law of their community.
As The Buried Giant opens, we are introduced to an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who, impelled by some vague sense of unease, decide to leave their small, warren-like community and go in search of their son.
8. Have a sense of urgency: Decide to get fit now instead of later.
Not particularly creative in their misogyny, some mysterious "jokesters" with a "sense of humour" decided to write "no means yes... and yes means anal" on a student house window near campus.
Moral "learning" is, thus, less a matter of ingesting and digesting moral principles to apply to circumstances, but more a matter of unlearning i.e., placing faith in the capacity of one's moral sense to "decide" the right course of action without the corruptive influence of reason or peer pressure.
The novel starts off in Singer territory, a shtetl in Poland where Otto Rotfeld, "an arrogant, feckless sort of man, with no good sense to speak of," decides that the only way he will get a wife is to make one.
One of the biggest advantages of the new system, in a game specific sense, is deciding on the grounding of a ball when all natural viewing angles have been obscured by surrounding players.
But that makes no more sense than deciding that employees of a particular company can board passenger airplanes with carry-on luggage that has not gone through metal detectors.
We need to use some common sense in deciding what kind of weapons we want on the streets.
