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The Hun Sen govrnment the new kind of communis, dictatorship will go along way with this guarila tactic!
KI Media 2010
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Redlichia takooensis (x2), Estangia bilobata, trilobites; Anomalocaris briggsi (x2); Isoxys communis, Phyllocarid.
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This central area was considered by many (including Leonardo, fig. 4.6) to be the sensus communis (common sense), a meeting place for the senses and the vital spirit of the soul, which arrives from the heart.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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By this 'certain power of the soul Ficino understands Plato to mean a sensus communis, upon which all sensation converges.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Such interconnectivity is also consistent with the ancient astrobiological notion that each of the seven apertures of the human head was influenced by the seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn) and that the inward flow of these influences gathered in the sensus communis (common sense), where the human soul was believed to reside.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Any rational person could care less how you justify communis opinio.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus has adelicate habit and cerise flowers.
In the garden this week: Net fruit bushes, plus gladioli times 2010
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The grounds for this hope lie within the a priori faculty or principle of sensus communis.
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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The existence of the root *melit is presently the communis opinio.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Unlike the "common sense" or "common understanding" of such eighteenth-century empiricists as Berkeley and Reid, which refers to what is commonly held by a community, Kant's sensus communis is precisely what enables community.
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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