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  • December 22nd, 2009 11: 45 am ET comming to his sense's and saving his job, or is he putting on a differant coat untill he gets reelected.

    House Dem to switch to Republican Party 2009

  • I don't understand common sense's implicit assertion that a Mars return entry is at a higher velocity than a lunar return?

    Bill Nelson Continues To Block NASA Administrator Nominees - NASA Watch 2009

  • The job of medicine is to look at the world and see if anything in nature falls under the concept as revealed by analysis (cf the “Canberra plan” of Jackson 1998) For revisionists, this understanding of common sense's relations to science is needlessly submissive to folk intuitions.

    Concepts of Disease and Health Murphy, Dominic 2008

  • Reply Obj. 1: Temperance is chiefly about pleasures of touch, not as regards the sense's judgment concerning the objects of touch, which judgment is of uniform character concerning all such objects, but as regards the use itself of those objects, as stated in _Ethic. _ iii,

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • Nameless they must remain; for it was as though he had discovered himself to possess a sixth sense; and he found that the contrivers of language, being less prodigally gifted, had never been at need to invent any terms wherewith to express this sense's gratification.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • One of the most recent translations is that of the revised Husenbeth, "The Missal for the Use of the Laity" (London, 1903, 286): "Let us profoundly bend before This awful mystery, and adore; Let types of former days give way, Like darkness at the blaze of day; And sense's failure be supplied By faith, our firm support and guide."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • The record of tactile sensations is frequent in our protocols and requires constant consideration of the sense's unreliability.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

  • For a very long time I believed that this function was a distinct sense, and, five years ago, I set to work in search of the sense's centre.

    The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

  • Vainly did scholasticism, common sense's college-trained younger sister, seek to stereotype the forms the human family had always talked with, to make them definite and fix them for eternity.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

  • So breaks the sense's last link between me and that world.

    The Bride of Fort Edward Delia Bacon 1835

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