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The concept of common sense is a long-standing term, based on human experience and people's individual perceptions. Common sense isn't actually common, in either sense: it is different from person to person, and may not be employed even when many editors could agree on what it is in a particular situation.
Paine's attack on monarchy in Common Sense is essentially an attack on George III. Whereas colonial resentments were originally directed primarily against the king's ministers and Parliament, Paine laid the responsibility firmly at the king's door. Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution. It was a clarion call ...
The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...
According to Yahoo answers, the quote is not "Common sense is not common." Their contributor Ray G suggests the quote was originally "Le sens commun est fort rare." They offer the translation "Common sense is quite rare." (It's not like French has no words to say precisely "not common" if that was what had been intended.)
Argument from ignorance (appeal to ignorance, argumentum ad ignorantiam) – assuming that a claim is true because it has not been or cannot be proven false, or vice versa. [64] Argument from incredulity (appeal to common sense) – "I cannot imagine how this could be true; therefore, it must be false." [65]
Exhorting another editor to "just use common sense" is likely to be taken as insulting, for good reasons. If in a particular case you feel that literally following a rule harms the encyclopedia, or that doing something which the rules technically allow degrades it, then instead of telling someone who disagrees to use common sense, just focus on ...
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will call for a "revolution of common sense" during his inaugural address, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday citing excerpts of his prepared remarks.
This is why primary sources, people who are very close to the subject (eyewitnesses or polls, for example), must be simply descriptive, not analytical (their intimacy with the subject could be considered a conflict of interest, or their limited scope may not be sufficient for an objective analysis).