Common sense depends upon ones frame of reference. If you grew up around people that thought the earth was flat and were asked,“Is the earth flat?” Your response would be,“Of course that is common sense.” A broad education, what used to be referred to as a liberal education, along with some understa…

[image] Covid -19 crises and American Exceptionalism But that is lack of knowledge, not sense. Without knowledge there is no sense other than the most primitive.

[image] Covid -19 crises and American Exceptionalism If common sense is not common shouldn’t we be calling it something else? Common sense is the thing you would have done if a girl wasn’t involved.

The Wikipedia article is a long one. [image] Common sense Common sense is sound practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge that is shared by ("common to") nearly all people. The first type of common sense, good sense, can be descr…

“Common sense” generally refers to an understanding of those things that one can directly observe. I wouldn’t say that everyone who once believed that the earth was the center of the universe lacked common sense, they simply accepted the conventional understanding of things beyond their senses. On…

The way the term “common sense” gets used is too vague. In the case of the flat earth argument would be an appeal to tradition which is how the term is frequently used.

This entire discussion of ‘common sense’ is pretty much a proof that it’s a chimera of the imagination… before we get to what ‘is’ means maybe we can look at it as a tool with a function, more than it’s content. For example, A ‘hammer’ is an iron thing, of a particular shape, well actually it can …

Common sense is evolutionary. What was common sense to the WW2 generation, having lived through the great depression, Rape of Nanking in 1937, German invasion in 1939, the attack on Pearl, the Holocaust, and the bombing of Nagasaki, is much different then the millennials or Gen Z’s [who, in my opin…

I was raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression. Their brand of common sense dictated that you cleaned all the food on your plate. If you were born in 1900 you were 14 when WW1 started and 18 when it ended with 22 million people killed. Later that year, the Spanish Flu pandemic hit a…

Nicely stated. I hope some of my folks and grandfolks that went through all that rubbed off a small portion of common sense off on my hard head.

Common sense would say not to get involved in so many wars…

What does the term "common sense" mean?

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Without knowledge there is no sense other than the most primitive.

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