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:''For the American independence advocacy pamphlet by Thomas Paine, see Common Sense (Book).'' The term common sense (or as an adjective, ''commonsense'') describes beliefs or propositions that seem, to most people, to be prudence and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge. These beliefs and propositions are sometimes developed after having studied, or conducted, empirical research. Among philosophers, defining common sense has proved vexing, leading many of them to shun the word altogether. Whatever it does mean, it does not mean homespun (and sometimes dubious) truths such as "Chicken soup is good for colds." Nonetheless, common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to, in one form or another, by a great many philosophers. Some related concepts include philosophical intuitions, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language philosophy, the frame problem, foundational beliefs, ''endoxa,'' and axioms. Commonsense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience, and thus commensurate with human scale. Thus there is no commonsense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances or speeds approaching the speed of light. == Philosophy and common sense == There are two general meanings to the term "common sense" in philosophy. One is a sense that is common to the others, and the other meaning is a sense of things that is common to humanity. The first meaning is proposed by John Locke in his ''Human Understanding''. Each of the senses gives input, and then these must be integrated into a single impression. This is the common sense, the sense of things in common between disparate impressions. It is therefore allied with "fancy", and it is opposed to "judgment", or the capacity to divide like things into separates. Each of the Empiricism philosophers approach the problem of the unification of sense data in one's own way, giving various names to the operation. However, all believe that there is a sense in the human understanding that sees commonality and does the combining. This is the "common sense". Two philosophers are most famous for advocating the other meaning of "common sense", the view (to state it imprecisely) that common sense beliefs are true and form a foundation for philosophical inquiry: Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore. The Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, a contemporary of David Hume and the founder of the so-called Scottish School of Common Sense, devotes considerable space in his ''Inquiry'' and the ''Intellectual Powers'' developing a theory of common sense. While he never gives a definition, ''per se'', he does offer a number of so-called "earmarks" of common sense (which he sometimes calls "principles of common sense"), such as *principles of common sense are believed universally (with the apparent exceptions of some philosophers and the insane); *it is appropriate to ridicule the denial of common sense; *the denial of principles of common sense leads to contradictions. Of course, each of these is stated and explained by Reid much more carefully than is done here. The British philosopher G. E. Moore, who did important work in epistemology, ethics, and other fields near the beginning of the twentieth century, is famous for a programmatic essay, "A Defence of Common Sense". This essay had a profound effect on the methodology of much twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy. In this essay, Moore lists several seemingly very obvious truths, such as "There exists at this time a living human body which is my body.", "My body has existed continuously on or near the earth, at various distances from or in contact with other existing things, including other living human beings.", and many other such platitudes. He argues (as Reid did before him) that these propositions are much more obviously true than the premises of many philosophical claims which entail their falsehood (such as the claim that time does not exist, a claim of A. N. Whitehead's). Both Reid and Moore, individually, are famous for appealing to common sense to refute skepticism. Appeal to common sense is characteristic of a general epistemological orientation called epistemological particularism (The appelation comes from Roderick Chisholm.), which orientation is contrasted with epistemological methodism. The particularist gathers a list of propositions that seem obvious and unassailable and then requires consistency with this set of propositions as a condition of adequacy for any abstract philosophical theory. (An entry on the list, however, may be eventually rejected for inconsistency with other, seemingly more secure, entries.) Methodists, on the other hand, begin with a theory of cognition or justification and then apply it to see which of our pre-theoretical beliefs survive. Reid and Moore are paradigmatic particularists, while Descartes and Hume are paradigmatic methodists. Methodist methodology tends toward skepticism, as the rules for acceptable or rational belief tend to be very restrictive (for instance, being incapable of doubt for Descartes, or being constructible entirely from impressions and ideas for Hume). Particularist methodology, on the other hand, tends toward a kind of conservatism, granting perhaps an undue privilege to beliefs we happen to be confident about. An interesting question is whether the methodologies can be mixed. For instance, it seems impossible to do logic, metaphysics and epistemology without beginning with some assumptions of common sense. However, particularism applied to ethics and politics often seems simply to entrench prejudice and other contingent products of social inculcation. Is there a way to provide a principled distinction between areas of inquiry where reliance on the dictates of common sense is legitimate (because necessary) and areas where it is illegitimate because it is an obstruction to intellectual and practical progress? The topic of common sense raises interesting and important questions in a field closely related to epistemology and philosophy of language called "meta-philosophy". Various questions might be raised in a meta-philosophical discussion of common sense: What is common sense? Supposing that a precise characterization of it cannot be given, does that mean appeal to common sense is off-limits in philosophy? Why should we care whether a belief is a matter of common sense or not? Under what circumstances, if any, is it permissible to advocate a view that seems to run contrary to common sense? Should considerations of common sense play ''any'' decisive role in philosophy? If not common sense, then should any other similar concept such as "intuition" play such a role? In general, are there "philosophical starting points", and if so, how might we characterize them? Supposing that there are no beliefs we are willing to hold come what may, are there some we ought to hold more stubbornly at least? ==Other uses== Common sense is sometimes regarded as an impediment to abstract and even logical thinking. This is especially the case in mathematics and physics, where human intuition often conflicts with provably correct or experimentally verified results. A definition attributed to Albert Einstein states: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Common sense is sometimes appealed to in political debates, particularly when other arguments have been exhausted. Civil rights for African Americans, women's suffrage, and homosexuality—to name just a few—have all been attacked as being contrary to common sense. Similarly, common sense has been invoked in opposition to many scientific and technological advancements. Such misuse of the notion of common sense is fallacious, being a form of the ''Appeal to belief'' (appeal to the masses) logical fallacy. ==Projects to collect common sense== The Cyc project is an attempt to provide a basis of commonsense knowledge for artificial intelligence systems. The Open Mind Common Sense project is similar except, like other on-line collaborative projects like Wikipedia, was built from the contributions of thousands of individuals across the Web. == See also == *Antonio Gramsci *appeal to tradition *common sense and the Diallelus *common sense conservative *convention *custom *frame problem *John Ralston Saul Ethics Logic epistemology
Common Sense is not knowledge. It is a common method of acquiring knowledge, represented by a knowledge, recognizable as that knowledge. When a person infers that 'common sense' would 'dictate' that person is not referring to a specific knowledge but to what the words actually mean. 'Common' is something most widely known, or habitual. 'Sense' is a natural understanding or intelligence. So 'common sense' would be a widely known, natural understanding. Not all persons have the same knowledge, yet all persons use the same method of intelligence. Your 'common sense' may not be the 'common sense' of another person, which is why the term has never gained 'common sense' understanding. Read chapter 12 of The Brain Is A Wonderful Thing at http://www.enticypress.com to see the definitive 'common sense' explanation. ---- There's a lot of comment on common sense by many writers that should be here. Also, the sense of it in Common Sense Revolution, as that phrase was coined in New Jersey and Ontario, should be mentioned. Here is an example of such self-proclaimed common sense by User:JoeM, who has certainly livened things up with his relentless support of Zionist Occupation Government and pursuit of New World Empire (from User_talk:JoeM): :"You people are cowards. You know that one common sense conservative can topple down the delicate house of cards made up users who are at least 90% far left. That's why you want me banned. Well, you might be able to ban me when you control the machinery, but my views are those of the majority of Americans and we now have an all-GOP government now. :America voted for Bush. Bush's approval rating are high. We have a GOP House and Senate. Americans supported the war in Iraq. Americans prefer Republican governors. We prefer the free market, tough on crime stances, a strong foreign policy guided by moral clarity, freedom, and national security, smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom. Americans love Reagan and We defeated Communism and socialism. However, a bunch of leftists are censoring me because they control this site and not America. User:JoeM" Unfortunately. If only the staid Wikipedians were in fact writing briefing papers for Bush. He might learn something. :It's common sense that most people don't care, and two parties still exist because neither can and does win. Bush only won because others let him. User:Lysdexia 17:34, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Lack of common sense == Would it be fair to say that geeks lack common sense? At least I do. People tell that to me all the time. :) Can we expand the article to include a section "Lack of common sense and those who don't get it"? :you need a serious, referenced source to say so. User:Andries 16:31, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Common sense == Common sense is often confused with logic, but common sense is logic plus extraneous information that is available to most people. Logic is applied according to a set of rules, and is internal to that system only. Thus you have 'garbage in, garbage out', as is evidenced so often in our legal system. Common sense helps filter out garbage, and is why juries are allowed to use common sense, whereas officers of the courts do not. : so, what you are saying is that common sense is meta-data of the logic process/experiences accumulated throught applying the logic process, right? is it an Meme? Because if it is, we can talk about how common logic is a learned trait and it must be taught/learned though experience in order to be understood. (Yeah, i don't get how people say "It's just common sence!") User:Project2501a 14:42, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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:''For the American independence advocacy pamphlet by Thomas Paine, see Common Sense (Book).'' The term common sense (or as an adjective, ''commonsense'') describes beliefs or propositions that seem, to most people, to be prudence and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge. These beliefs and propositions are sometimes developed after having studied, or conducted, empirical research. Among philosophers, defining common sense has proved vexing, leading many of them to shun the word altogether. Whatever it does mean, it does not mean homespun (and sometimes dubious) truths such as "Chicken soup is good for colds." Nonetheless, common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to, in one form or another, by a great many philosophers. Some related concepts include philosophical intuitions, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language philosophy, the frame problem, foundational beliefs, ''endoxa,'' and axioms. Commonsense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience, and thus commensurate with human scale. Thus there is no commonsense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances or speeds approaching the speed of light. == Philosophy and common sense == There are two general meanings to the term "common sense" in philosophy. One is a sense that is common to the others, and the other meaning is a sense of things that is common to humanity. The first meaning is proposed by John Locke in his ''Human Understanding''. Each of the senses gives input, and then these must be integrated into a single impression. This is the common sense, the sense of things in common between disparate impressions. It is therefore allied with "fancy", and it is opposed to "judgment", or the capacity to divide like things into separates. Each of the Empiricism philosophers approach the problem of the unification of sense data in one's own way, giving various names to the operation. However, all believe that there is a sense in the human understanding that sees commonality and does the combining. This is the "common sense". Two philosophers are most famous for advocating the other meaning of "common sense", the view (to state it imprecisely) that common sense beliefs are true and form a foundation for philosophical inquiry: Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore. The Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, a contemporary of David Hume and the founder of the so-called Scottish School of Common Sense, devotes considerable space in his ''Inquiry'' and the ''Intellectual Powers'' developing a theory of common sense. While he never gives a definition, ''per se'', he does offer a number of so-called "earmarks" of common sense (which he sometimes calls "principles of common sense"), such as *principles of common sense are believed universally (with the apparent exceptions of some philosophers and the insane); *it is appropriate to ridicule the denial of common sense; *the denial of principles of common sense leads to contradictions. Of course, each of these is stated and explained by Reid much more carefully than is done here. The British philosopher G. E. Moore, who did important work in epistemology, ethics, and other fields near the beginning of the twentieth century, is famous for a programmatic essay, "A Defence of Common Sense". This essay had a profound effect on the methodology of much twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy. In this essay, Moore lists several seemingly very obvious truths, such as "There exists at this time a living human body which is my body.", "My body has existed continuously on or near the earth, at various distances from or in contact with other existing things, including other living human beings.", and many other such platitudes. He argues (as Reid did before him) that these propositions are much more obviously true than the premises of many philosophical claims which entail their falsehood (such as the claim that time does not exist, a claim of A. N. Whitehead's). Both Reid and Moore, individually, are famous for appealing to common sense to refute skepticism. Appeal to common sense is characteristic of a general epistemological orientation called epistemological particularism (The appelation comes from Roderick Chisholm.), which orientation is contrasted with epistemological methodism. The particularist gathers a list of propositions that seem obvious and unassailable and then requires consistency with this set of propositions as a condition of adequacy for any abstract philosophical theory. (An entry on the list, however, may be eventually rejected for inconsistency with other, seemingly more secure, entries.) Methodists, on the other hand, begin with a theory of cognition or justification and then apply it to see which of our pre-theoretical beliefs survive. Reid and Moore are paradigmatic particularists, while Descartes and Hume are paradigmatic methodists. Methodist methodology tends toward skepticism, as the rules for acceptable or rational belief tend to be very restrictive (for instance, being incapable of doubt for Descartes, or being constructible entirely from impressions and ideas for Hume). Particularist methodology, on the other hand, tends toward a kind of conservatism, granting perhaps an undue privilege to beliefs we happen to be confident about. An interesting question is whether the methodologies can be mixed. For instance, it seems impossible to do logic, metaphysics and epistemology without beginning with some assumptions of common sense. However, particularism applied to ethics and politics often seems simply to entrench prejudice and other contingent products of social inculcation. Is there a way to provide a principled distinction between areas of inquiry where reliance on the dictates of common sense is legitimate (because necessary) and areas where it is illegitimate because it is an obstruction to intellectual and practical progress? The topic of common sense raises interesting and important questions in a field closely related to epistemology and philosophy of language called "meta-philosophy". Various questions might be raised in a meta-philosophical discussion of common sense: What is common sense? Supposing that a precise characterization of it cannot be given, does that mean appeal to common sense is off-limits in philosophy? Why should we care whether a belief is a matter of common sense or not? Under what circumstances, if any, is it permissible to advocate a view that seems to run contrary to common sense? Should considerations of common sense play ''any'' decisive role in philosophy? If not common sense, then should any other similar concept such as "intuition" play such a role? In general, are there "philosophical starting points", and if so, how might we characterize them? Supposing that there are no beliefs we are willing to hold come what may, are there some we ought to hold more stubbornly at least? ==Other uses== Common sense is sometimes regarded as an impediment to abstract and even logical thinking. This is especially the case in mathematics and physics, where human intuition often conflicts with provably correct or experimentally verified results. A definition attributed to Albert Einstein states: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Common sense is sometimes appealed to in political debates, particularly when other arguments have been exhausted. Civil rights for African Americans, women's suffrage, and homosexuality—to name just a few—have all been attacked as being contrary to common sense. Similarly, common sense has been invoked in opposition to many scientific and technological advancements. Such misuse of the notion of common sense is fallacious, being a form of the ''Appeal to belief'' (appeal to the masses) logical fallacy. ==Projects to collect common sense== The Cyc project is an attempt to provide a basis of commonsense knowledge for artificial intelligence systems. The Open Mind Common Sense project is similar except, like other on-line collaborative projects like Wikipedia, was built from the contributions of thousands of individuals across the Web. == See also == *Antonio Gramsci *appeal to tradition *common sense and the Diallelus *common sense conservative *convention *custom *frame problem *John Ralston Saul Ethics Logic epistemology
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Common Sense is not knowledge. It is a common method of acquiring knowledge, represented by a knowledge, recognizable as that knowledge. When a person infers that 'common sense' would 'dictate' that person is not referring to a specific knowledge but to what the words actually mean. 'Common' is something most widely known, or habitual. 'Sense' is a natural understanding or intelligence. So 'common sense' would be a widely known, natural understanding. Not all persons have the same knowledge, yet all persons use the same method of intelligence. Your 'common sense' may not be the 'common sense' of another person, which is why the term has never gained 'common sense' understanding. Read chapter 12 of The Brain Is A Wonderful Thing at http://www.enticypress.com to see the definitive 'common sense' explanation. ---- There's a lot of comment on common sense by many writers that should be here. Also, the sense of it in Common Sense Revolution, as that phrase was coined in New Jersey and Ontario, should be mentioned. Here is an example of such self-proclaimed common sense by User:JoeM, who has certainly livened things up with his relentless support of Zionist Occupation Government and pursuit of New World Empire (from User_talk:JoeM): :"You people are cowards. You know that one common sense conservative can topple down the delicate house of cards made up users who are at least 90% far left. That's why you want me banned. Well, you might be able to ban me when you control the machinery, but my views are those of the majority of Americans and we now have an all-GOP government now. :America voted for Bush. Bush's approval rating are high. We have a GOP House and Senate. Americans supported the war in Iraq. Americans prefer Republican governors. We prefer the free market, tough on crime stances, a strong foreign policy guided by moral clarity, freedom, and national security, smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom. Americans love Reagan and We defeated Communism and socialism. However, a bunch of leftists are censoring me because they control this site and not America. User:JoeM" Unfortunately. If only the staid Wikipedians were in fact writing briefing papers for Bush. He might learn something. :It's common sense that most people don't care, and two parties still exist because neither can and does win. Bush only won because others let him. User:Lysdexia 17:34, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Lack of common sense == Would it be fair to say that geeks lack common sense? At least I do. People tell that to me all the time. :) Can we expand the article to include a section "Lack of common sense and those who don't get it"? :you need a serious, referenced source to say so. User:Andries 16:31, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Common sense == Common sense is often confused with logic, but common sense is logic plus extraneous information that is available to most people. Logic is applied according to a set of rules, and is internal to that system only. Thus you have 'garbage in, garbage out', as is evidenced so often in our legal system. Common sense helps filter out garbage, and is why juries are allowed to use common sense, whereas officers of the courts do not. : so, what you are saying is that common sense is meta-data of the logic process/experiences accumulated throught applying the logic process, right? is it an Meme? Because if it is, we can talk about how common logic is a learned trait and it must be taught/learned though experience in order to be understood. (Yeah, i don't get how people say "It's just common sence!") User:Project2501a 14:42, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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