Oxymoron? Myth? It seems to be a huge expectation; people reference it all the time. What is the true definition?
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I can imagine that the saying came as some sort of reference to what was commonly understood as having no need of explanation.Oxymoron? Myth? It seems to be a huge expectation; people reference it all the time. What is the true definition?
I can imagine that the saying came as some sort of reference to what was commonly understood as having no need of explanation.
But I do believe it has morphed into something more like a [rare] form of simple logic.
Hahahaha... that would also make it a cop-out too!I think it is really a misapplied label for 'personal sense'.
What is the true definition?
the limitations of words (over Word, hmm) is that definitions change, even among those in the same era, same peer group even.But I do believe it has morphed
the limitations of words (over Word, hmm) is that definitions change, even among those in the same era, same peer group even.
The phrase 'common sense' is an epithet in practice, it seems to me; we use it in a negative fashion to describe someone else, and justify ourselves i think, almost exclusively.
As for a proper definition, common sense is whatever was obvious to me--often in hindsight--that was not so obvious to you, who had only foresight? lol
Yeah, like a really blunt person would just say, "Don't be stupid" or "That's so dumb."we use it in a negative fashion to describe someone else, and justify ourselves i think, almost exclusively.
yes. Funny how little children are so blunt, huh, not having learned...what is the word we use for it, not coming to me...the word for "prevaricate" in that situation? oh, "tact."Yeah, like a really blunt person would just say, "Don't be stupid" or "That's so dumb."
Oxymoron? Myth? It seems to be a huge expectation; people reference it all the time. What is the true definition?
a simple precept like stopping for red lights in societies that have automobiles is common sense, you think that is a myth, only a moron would think that, and try to make others think that.
well the OED the authority on the English language says, nothing mythological here, a concept that even arguing philosophical community accepts as a precept of common ground. only a moron refuses to accept common human understanding and perception.
†1. An ‘internal’ sense which was regarded as the common bond or centre of the five senses, in which the various impressions received were reduced to the unity of a common consciousness. Obs.
2. The endowment of natural intelligence possessed by rational beings; ordinary, normal or average understanding; the plain wisdom which is everyone's inheritance. (This is ‘common sense’ at its minimum, without which one is foolish or insane.) †Formerly also in pl., in phr. besides his common senses: out of his senses or wits, ‘beside himself’.
b. More emphatically: Good sound practical sense; combined tact and readiness in dealing with the every-day affairs of life; general sagacity.
†c. Ordinary or untutored perception. Obs.
d. As a quality of things said or done (= ‘something accordant to or approved by common sense’).
3. The general sense, feeling, or judgement of mankind, or of a community.
4. Philos. The faculty of primary truths; ‘the complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature; which all men therefore possess in common; and by which they test the truth of knowledge, and the morality of actions’ (Hamilton Reid's Wks. II. 756).
Philosophy of Common Sense: that philosophy which accepts as the ultimate criterion of truth the primary cognitions or beliefs of mankind; e.g. in the theory of perception, the universal belief in the existence of a material world. Applied to the Scotch school which arose in the 18th c. in opposition to the views of Berkeley and Hume.