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In The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell wrote, commonsensically , that the more things you cultivate an interest in, the richer and therefore happier your life will be.
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In The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell wrote, commonsensically , that the more things you cultivate an interest in, the richer and therefore happier your life will be.
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In The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell wrote, commonsensically , that the more things you cultivate an interest in, the richer and therefore happier your life will be.
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They are a weird folk, the nobility; they do nothing commonsensically.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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In the course of doing so, the various sub-disciplines of cognitive science (including cognitive and computational psychology and cognitive and computational neuroscience) postulate a number of different kinds of structures and processes, many of which are not directly implicated by mental states and processes as commonsensically conceived.
Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008
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And although more specific arguments will be considered shortly, it also has seemed more or less undeniable to many philosophers that physical objects, at least as commonsensically construed, are not themselves literally part of that conscious experiential content, even though they are depicted or represented by various aspects of it.
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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One main argument for this commonsensically implausible view derives from Hume [1739-40].
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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And, even worse, God has ideas of all possible objects (Pitcher 1977, 171-2), not just the ones which we would commonsensically wish to say exist.
George Berkeley Downing, Lisa 2004
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Christian belief: for example, the claims that God is dead, that there are no objective 'moral standards, and perhaps also the claim that there isn't any such thing as truth, at least as commonsensically thought of.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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Looking at this logically and rationally - and really, just commonsensically, humans cannot survive in a world deprived of its natural requirements, let alone attempt to synthesize them all.
Countercurrents.org 2009
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