Writing yesterday in the London Evening Standard, Boleat said: "What is needed is a sensible, fact-based debate over what migrants bring to the capital, while also acknowledging their impact on communities and services.
So worthy and sensible, in fact, that you may well ask why on earth they did not take off much earlier.
Clearly, intelligence doesn't mean that you are more rational or sensible – a fact that we've explored before on BBC Future.
No amount of research can guarantee that what sounds like common sense is in fact sensible, or whether something that works for one product will work for another.
Kane at NCVO also believes there remains a need for detailed breakdowns rather than just snappy messages such as "your £10 paid for three jerry cans": "I think people are generally quite sensible about the fact that charities can't provide that jerry can unless you've got a logistics chain in place".
This logic might seem sensible, but, in fact, the opposite could well be true.
How such essentially subjective application of categories to sensible phenomena in fact happens is a problem of psychology, not philosophy, to investigate.
In fact, sensible qualities and objects considered in relation to their being as modes of the mind are not the true objects of knowledge or of science, since they are only modal beings subject to change.
Feelings in their immediacy are "expressed" for if they were not, if they were not also sensible and bodily facts ("psycho-physical phenomena," as the positivists used to call them) they would not be concrete things, and so they would be nothing at all.
In fact, the sensible treatments he identifies can be summed up in one short paragraph.
In contrast to the morbid and wildly neurotic Enoch, he's matter of fact, very sensible, and more than a little exasperated by his friend's extravagant moods.
