Sentences with phrase «view as common sense»

What most people seem to view as tactics, I view as common sense.

In any event, I don't need experts or studies to tell me that inflicting physical pain on my kids is wrong, on so many levels — I view it as common sense.

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The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb as the place that business common sense forgot, and the book serves largely as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.

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.

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.

Furthermore, the classical physics of Galileo, Descartes and Newton, basing itself on this common sense view of matter, portrays nature as made up of hard, impermeable material particles or mechanisms obeying immutable physical laws.

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.

In partial defense of this view, Parmenides» student, Zeno, showed that both science and common sense ran into paradoxes when they assumed (as they did at that time) that space and time are made up of elementary units, but still are continua.

Our common - sense view of time regards it as the form of social process.

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.

Using common human experience as a base, Niebuhr sought to show that the secular view of life is inadequate: the secular analysis of man made less sense than the biblical one.

It fits better with our common sense to adopt a view not unlike that found in parts of the Old Testament: sin will have its harmful consequences for the person doing as well as for the person done to, not as a result of a special interventionist act of God but as a natural result of the sin itself.

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.

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.

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.

The common sense interpretation of this last development, given the context of President Buhari's recent long medical vacation in the UK and his absence from public view, is that the President is too ill to go to his office located within the same Aso Villa Complex as his residence!

Thus, animal fats should be viewed in a common - sense way as an important source of nutrition.

And while correlation does not equal causation, generally eating nutrient - dense food which does not entail any of the foodstuffs that could potentially harm you, is probably very good common - sense advice your grandmother would give you (and for which scientific training is not required to be viewed as preferable).

Retain your common sense and view online dating as you view real - world dating.

For no current - affairs commentator do I have greater respect than Peggy Noonan, whose sagacity, common sense, plain - spokenness, and «big picture» view of things are as welcome — and rare — as the clarity and persuasiveness of her prose.

Featuring some of the artist's most innovative works, Lichtenstein: Re-Figure aims not only to highlight the artist's engagement with the human figure — a central theme throughout his career — but also to «re-figure,» in the sense of reassessing, the common yet reductive view of Lichtenstein as the painter of pop culture images.

FWIW — many «skeptics» claim that mechanism doesn't explain how most «skeptics» formulate their views on climate change — but they think other mechanisms are explanatory, such as a common sense insight that climate scientists are trying to bamboozle them.

Where there are rival meanings, the court can reach a view as to which construction is more consistent with business common sense.