Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Common sense could, at face value, have several definitions applied to it: Firstly, it is 'common' in that all agree to the idea and accept it as obvious. No amount of research or investigation need go into establishing its existence or reasons for its propositions in order that one accept it. It is self-evident, therefore of sound judgment, therefore, no doubt, accepted by the 'normal' rational person. Using a circular definition, it is sense that is held in 'common' by 'common' people.
'Common sense could be thought of as logical thinking in the hypothetical-deductive manner that is innate in us, i.e. If p then q; an intrinsic sense of reasoning that is innate and instinctive in all rationally reasoning humans. In this sense it is also an autonomous and natural problem-solving technique.
Philosophers, however, find the definition of common sense to be less facile. Indeed, common sense remains one of the perennial and popular topics in philosophy, likely because philosophy counters common sense and suspects its appearance. Related philosophical...
Philosophers, such as Aristotle, the Scholastics, and Locke, in a certain manner, equated 'common sense' with the mental application of attributing a perception with a holistic meaning. When seeing a tree for instance we do not divide it into its particles of leaf, bough, twig etc., but see it for its whole: Tree. The mind instinctively categorizes the particular into the whole, classifying it, and giving it a certain meaning and context.
The entire discipline of science, in fact, goes out of its way, to ask so-called common sense questions in order to investigate whether they can refute them, thus show that they are not as commonsensical as they initially appear, and, by refuting them, develop new discoveries. Science, particularly the social sciences, over and again, throughout history have shown that what appears logical and commonly upheld by all is precisely not so, and the reverse,…
Sources
Nietzsche, F. "On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense." The Nietzsche reader. Eds K.A. Pearson & D. Large. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 114-124.
Indeed, in retrospect, my personal issues, no matter how stringent they might have been, should not have stayed in the way of exercising my common sense in the relationship with the rest of the individuals. From this perspective, it is most likely that I should have followed what the son of the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, C.E. Stowe said in relation to common sense, that "common sense is the knack
Our belief in world communication means that all workers strive to ensure that our workplace communication is effective. This free and easy access of information is made possible not simply through workplace rhetoric, but also through practical institutions such as the use of 'live' weekly centralized meetings and regular email notifications and communications when face-to-face communication is not feasible. There is also a regular company newsletter and company intranet
killer and his victim has been one of the most enduring topics throughout horror and suspense fiction, and it is this relationship which ties together three ostensibly distinct stories: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." In each case, the majority of the story consists of the killer
In terms of education, the author addresses the way in which the education system functions at the basic level to achieve outcomes that are far below the economic needs growth of the state. School children receive a substandard education, for example, which results in poor job prospects and low university admission numbers. At the same time, those students that do graduate with University degrees, do not have work opportunities that
Values and Beliefs: Transformation and Change Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the human psyche is how one's personal values and beliefs can transform and change. Whereas, one previously might have imagined that one's value systems and beliefs were "set in stone," events, circumstances, relationships, and changing community membership can either slowly or suddenly work to change one's central beliefs quite unexpectedly. Although many individuals can experience a real sense
value of studying philosophy? According to Chapter 15 of Bertram Russell's tract The Problems of Philosophy: "The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind