Sentences with phrase «with ordinary prudence»

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Inferences from common events must have quickly entered into consideration, being so intimately a part of ordinary prudence; and with the personalist interpretation of environment, supposed action by that environment would have the same relevance as action by another person.

The problem with Skimpolism is that it ignores, and refuses to acknowledge, the sources and causes of its own good fortune: the enormous human enterprise of toil, commerce, and distribution, the attendant fatigue, risk, worry, and vexation, the requisite virtues of foresight, prudence, honesty, and diligence — all of which are necessary for something as ordinary as a peach or a glove to end up in Skimpole's dining room.

Negligence is defined as «A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.»