Is "common sense" common?
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1) Common Knowledge - things that people, just because they are alive in this day and age are expected to know.
2) Common Logic - processes of logic that are simple enough to be had by everyone.
People often mistake common knowledge for common logic. I think common sense is more accurately "Common Logic".
Someone might ask "Where is Washington, D.C.?" and then tell someone that they have no "Common Sense" for not knowing where it is. This is false, they just lack common knowledge.
Common sense would be pouring a very hot liquid into a container, and then being suprised when the outside of that container was hot. Your "common sense" or common logic that heat transfers should tell you that the hot liquid inside would heat up the container.
The commonness of "common sense" would really depend on the amount of these logical principles that one retains and can apply to ones real world surroundings.
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What is common sense and how is it defined?
Common sense is based on our education and the environment we live in. So your Common sense isn't common when you try to expand it to the whole world. It gets more and more common as you look in your country, state, city, family.
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Is it common to ask about the commonness of common sense? Hmm...that's rather uncommon.
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M$merriam-webster defines common used in these terms as: something general or widespread. and sense as: capacity for effective application of the powers of the mind as a basis for action or response. together they are defined as: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.
out of the 6,602,224,175 living together on terra firma. while not everyone can seem to practice sound and prudent judgement per the definition of common sense (i.e. habitual dui offenders, people who light thier own farts and end up with 3rd degree burns, ect.) the majority of people can and do, according to their respective cultures and beliefs. minus those with any malicious intent towards fellow man, that falls to the individual not the culture.
so in essence the majority of people practice sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception of the facts. making it a general or widespread practice, common sense is common.
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M$In other cases, common sense can refer to good judgment, for example, when someone asks you to use common sense, he/she doesn't mean general knowledge, but just good judgment. All in all, common sense in terms of common knowledge is not all the common, but common sense in the form of good judgment is held and carried out by a myriad of people everyday.
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Don't go outside without a shirt in the freezing rain.
Don't step in front of a car when it's moving.
Look before you cross the street.
Careful when using power tools that can cut your finger clear off.
If a naked hitchhiker has a bloody chainsaw and is giving you the finger, don't pick her up.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
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The upshot of the research was that, in many cases, examples considered 'common sense' by most people were in fact examples of faulty cause and effect attribution.
One example was the 'common sense' assertion that a particular country's new law, compelling cyclists to wear helmets had reduced cycling deaths by 17%. The figures looked right (473 deaths in one year, 393 the next year) and 'common sense' tells us that wearing cycle helmets will reduce fatalities.
What the figures (and common sense) failed to recognise was that the compulsory helmet law had caused a significant number of cyclists to give up riding their bike on a regular basis (approximately 23%).
Far from reducing the number of cycle-related deaths, taking into account the overall drop in cycling as an activity, fatalities actually increased by 19% in the year after the helmet law came into effect.
Faulty cause and effect attribution.
So much for common sense!
PhD research.
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We are supposed to know to come in out of the rain. They are supposed to ready their boats and fishing nets.
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M$Common sense is a lifelong learning process. We were all born with the capacity for it, but as some of the answers above have already suggested, it depends on how sheltered your life was, how you were raised, what culture you are in, etc. Most of the knowledge passes through the cultural barrier though. Common sense-wise, a raging lion is going to be dangerous in any culture. Maybe more so to a culture that has never seen a lion. Whether it is instinct or just good old common sense, they can sense the danger of the situation and steer clear of it.
Common sense is what keeps us mostly danger free, and hopefully embarrassment free.
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it depends on how you have been subjected to life. if your sheltered, chances are common sense isnt common. if you have been subjected to experiencing the world yourself, then chances are you come across those problems frequently thus making it common sense.
peace!
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M$Often the word "common sense" is used interchangeably with wisdom, and I think there is a slight difference -- wisdom, in my opinion, refers to knowledge of human nature (and is far less common); common sense refers to the ability of one to understand how to apply common knowledge and history.
For example, most people will wear seatbelts in automobiles, while some are choosing not to use common sense when they neglect to use seatbelts -- although it is common knowledge and it has been historically shown that they are one of the simplest and convenient measures of protecting oneself from injury.
However, the fabled "wisdom of Solomon" as oft quoted in Proverbs showed consistent knowledge of human nature on his part -- such as in the story of two women claiming the same baby, in which Solomon's threat to physically divide the baby between them revealed the true human nature of each (the true mother preferred the baby to live, albeit under the parenthood of the other).
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your heat transfers exe. is an example of common knowledge. common logic is something such as: if i am hungry, i should eat then i will not be hungry anymore. logic is an ingrained instict not knowledge of containers transative properties to heat. excuse me if this comes off as a flame.. its meant to be more of a clarification.