Philosophy
"Sure he's smart, but he's got no COMMON SENSE." Man, I hate that.
What is this "common sense" of which they speak? How do I know for any given sentence X whether X is common sense? Does that mean it is simply widely known? Is it self-evident? Is it a pre-theoretical truth, that is, something whose justification requires only everyday experience and no general theory?
Is common sense unrevisably true? If something is common sense, could it be wrong? If so, what good is it?
Those of you who supposedly have common sense, what is it?
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Philosophy
What Is Common Sense?
"Sure he's smart, but he's got no COMMON SENSE." Man, I hate that.
What is this "common sense" of which they speak? How do I know for any given sentence X whether X is common sense? Does that mean it is simply widely known? Is it self-evident? Is it a pre-theoretical truth, that is, something whose justification requires only everyday experience and no general theory?
Is common sense unrevisably true? If something is common sense, could it be wrong? If so, what good is it?
Those of you who supposedly have common sense, what is it?
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Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and a holiday for Pagans. The term "pagan" has both a denotation -- it refers to pre-Christian religions which tended to be polytheistic and to contemporary religious views that are more...
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- Hans Hahn And Intuition
Today is the birthday of Hans Hahn, the Austian mathematician who, along with his brother-in-law-to-be Otto Neurath, started the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists. He was a philosophically-minded mathematician at a time when the foundations of math...
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