Please provide your definition of the phrase "common sense". Also, please let the rest of us know the extent to which you encounter it on a daily/weekly basis.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Over the years I have found that common sense is one of the rarest commodities in the world - particularly among the 'well educated' class
ShadowAmicus
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Oct 14, 2019
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Fire is hot.. Water is wet.. Pain hurts.. That's common sense.. Self evident stuff I'd say.. Things all people should know.. Doesn't need to be figured out...
Cutiebeauty
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Oct 14, 2019
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It can mean a lot of things depending on the person using the phrase and the subject. Usually it is most used by people who have it the least.
Sometimes it is just another cheap anti-intellectual shot, like "geek", "nerd" and "bluestockings", but if there is any thing called common sense which has value. Then I would say that it is the ability to make good value judgments about issues, where there is not time, freedom or resources for testing and fact checking, it is therefore a good last resort when we have nothing else.
Fernapple
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Oct 14, 2019
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Common sense is not subjective.. I disagree with you here..
@slydr68 Getting a bit old fashioned now, but it does have some charm, at least more than 'Geek' etc. Perhaps never used in the US but often used in the UK. A bluestockings, is a female academic and intellectual, so called because it was thought that they wore thick woollen blue stockings, to cope with the cold in academic institutions. When truly feminine women, of course, wore fine silk or nylon, in pretty colours. It is of course horribly sexist as well as anti-intellectual.
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