Peta Buscombe offers some common-sense testimony.
Similarly, in Morning Hours, he cites the argument that the external senses' testimony to an external world is unthinkable without a necessary, extra-worldly being, but adds that this sort of argument would hardly convince an idealist, sceptic, or solipsist.
This is, in a sense, a testimony to our collective passion for communication and contact over all other needs, and a lesson in how quickly ideas of decorum adjust to the times.
Or at least we once knew, until we allowed nutrition experts and advertisers to shake our common sense, tradition, testimony of our senses, and wisdom of our mothers and grandmothers.
I've stared and stared and felt my mind slide from it again and again: unimaginable fact, confirmed by senses and testimony, confirmed by the procession of ash-bathed faces shambling through the neighborhood after crossing the bridge, confirmed by the television and yet granted no status by reeling, refusing mind.
But there was always a sense that demanding testimony was somehow unseemly.
"The sense from his testimony was that these are just accusations and, 'I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt before I just assume they are true,' " Ms. Laviano said.
One has had the sense, since his testimony skated past the truth on his involvement with Charles Pickering and on his awareness that documents he received were purloined, that his heart is that of a conservative partisan, one who tried so very hard to make himself into Supreme Court material.
Asked why he thought that, Mr. Beretta replied, "Common sense". Because the testimony came in the context of high-stakes litigation, it is difficult to tell how much of it reflected a studied attempt to avoid liability or a fundamentally laissez-faire attitude toward the firearms trade.
Perhaps sensing that his testimony on Tuesday was undermining the official White House version of events in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus today offered a dramatically different interpretation of the recent violent unrest in Basra..
