Sentences with phrase «by common sense as»

So market efficiency is supported by common sense as well as by scientific research.

Not exact matches

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Bootstrapping is a common sense approach to building a business by spending as frugally as possible at the launch and using the business» assets and possibly your own personal assets to fund the early startup stages.

The rules, which the company described as «common - sense measures,» echo similar restrictions established by some major retailers, like Walmart.

What he took away by denying the possible objectivity and rationality of belief, he returned by reconceiving common sense and common action as expressions of natural inclinations and habits.

Chesterton liked to talk about it as the difference between rationalism and reason, by which he meant common sense.

And yet, as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.

Now the distinctions between «superior to actuality» and «superior even to possibility,» or between «superior to other possible individuals» and to «other possible states of oneself» (as an individual identical in spite of changes or alternate possible states), or again, between «superior in all,» «in some,» or «in no» respects of value — these distinctions are urged upon us by universal experience and common - sense modes of thought.

«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.

Moreover if it did (assuming this to be possible in the framework of an overall Whiteheadian scheme), then it would itself be forcefully repudiated — and not simply by physicists, for the material world of common sense as well as of physics would be drastically impugned.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

At the time Whitehead was writing Process and Reality idealist systems were under attack on methodological grounds, first by C. E. Moore as violating the prescriptions of common sense, then by the school of logical positivism represented chiefly by Schlick, Carnap, and Ayer.

Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and indeed by common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).

The verse 2 Thessalonians 3:10 «For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat» is mostly used by conservatives as the explanation of their anti-Christian behavior, however this was common practice among communists, and the real sense was that the bourgeoisie should not exploit the poor.

This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.

There are no moral absolutes, but there are such things as empathy, sympathy, logic, reason, common sense, and science to give me a much more effective and intelligent set of morals to live by.

The common sense notions presupposed by the scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that still shape our everyday thinking, are no longer tenable as comprehensive and fundamental explanations of things.

Universal Algebra, in precisely this sense, is a poor framework for mathematics insofar as it unites spatial manifolds and symbolic logic by introducing the common notion of an algebraic manifold (Whitehead's terminology) or a semi-group (current standard terminology), an object with very little structure or intrinsic interest.9 In this case, generalization comes at the expense of abstract sterility.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

Although pure mathematics and impure practice thus combine to suggest that living things, human selves and societies, should not be pictured on the model of Chepstow Castle — as though they were ping - pong balls, single shells that either insulate or shatter — our generalized common - sense notions of inside and outside by and large remain early Norman in their simplicity.

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

Lynn, dressed in all black and wearing a priest collar, listened intently as Coelho argued that he knowingly covered up incidents of sexual abuse, including alleged acts by Brennan, and «ignored common sense and placed children at risk.»

The word «Pagan» (which can translate as «common» or «provincial») was originally used (in the religious sense) to refer to the practices of peasents or commoners that were not supported by the early catholic church.

We may collect together all the notes played by one instrument: these may be regarded as the analogues of the successive particulars which common sense would regard as successive states of one «thing.»

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

By that I mean that the common habit of treating robots as people — however much it seems like a joke or a shorthand or a metaphor — could erode our already diminished sense of the human person as uniquely special.

It «is no mere extension of ordinary language,» but by its specialized function in a subordinate role intends to be «illuminative of common - sense assertions as a whole.»

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

But, also, any human with common sense knows that at this time, all religions and creeds known to men - are full of crap and instill separatism among groups of humans as if one is more valuable to God - they guy who supposedly made everyone and everything - separatistic ideas as «my book» my god» «my people» are the most beloved by God are wrong, will be always wrong and all religions are wrong and will always be wrong.

It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.

St Clare's Catholic primary school and Calderwood Lodge Jewish primary school will share the same building in an ambitious plan conceived by East Renfrewshire education authority in 2013, describing it as an exercise in common sense.

That the narrowness of the «lower experience» has been often considered the meaning of happiness by common sense while security and order in life are extolled as virtue is itself a tragic testimony to the folly of human timidity, as analyzed below.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

Hartshorne does admit that panpsychism appears incredible to common sense at such points as the suggestion that stones may have feelings or be composed of sentient entities; but he counters the force of this objection by pointing out that such scientific conceptions as atomic and cellular structures of plants and animals also greatly transcend common sense.

It was entirely in keeping with their common sense to explain an event as the result of specific intervention by God.

Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature of time and space, the reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects of perception but only in the mind of the beholder.

Even if you do not believe the Bible is inspired by God certainly you acknowledge the Bible contains great spiritual truths as well as common sense foundations for relationships between people.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

Well, you better get busy... your numbers are dwindling day - by - day... science and common sense are working against you as time marches on...

From the earliest times the latter sense of the word was more common, as may be seen by St. Augustine's statement: «the deliberate sin of the first man is the cause of original sin» (De nupt.

Some historians have gone so far as to argue that it was the first movement that gave the colonies any sense of common identity.28 Itinerant ministers, exemplified by the indefatigable George Whitfield, traveled from colony to colony bearing their message of repentance and redemption.

Thus, quite typically, discussions of «societies» by process thinkers are quite different from common sense usage of the word as well as sociological definitions, and usually do not refer to human societies.

Honestly, you can never fully predict how your starter will perform, but common sense tells me that yours should work perfectly fine as long as it's fed at 100 % hydration (equal parts flour + water by weight).

«As an industry we've breathed a sigh of relief that common sense has prevailed for the time being in the decision by Judge Tingling in NYC.

The only luck was clubs having to live by their means, that isn't even luck as it sounds like common sense and all is fair.

If we make a bid for one player it does not mean we do nt want another player... thats called common sense by keeping options open Players are made available or put in transfer requests at various times during the season and for many reasons... eg PSG buy neymar for stupid money and so Barca noe have a huge pot to make bids for people previously unavailable and so on... At times it seems as though some of you have never watched football before or a transfer window!!!

Exciting game to watch, obviously some great moments and it's hard to critique too much when the 3 points are achieved because common sense is oftentimes thrown out the window, as witnessed by the vast majority of posts

Bringing Henry back on loan could be a shrewd acquisition by Arsene Wenger, but it's also a common sense purchase as well.