Definitions for common sense
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1. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother witnoun

   sound practical judgment

   "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

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1. common sensenoun

   An internal sense, formerly believed to be the sense by which information from the other five senses is understood and interpreted.

2. common sensenoun

   Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

3. Etymology: After sensus communis, κοινὴ αἴσθησις.

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1. Common Sense

   Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best-selling American title and is still in print today.Common Sense made public a persuasive and impassioned case for independence, which had not yet been given serious intellectual consideration. Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."The text was translated into French by Antoine Gilbert Griffet de Labaume in 1790.

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1. common sense

   Common sense is a basic level of practical knowledge or judgment about a situation or matter, which is usually shared by a group of people or society in general. It is a form of intuitive understanding that allows individuals to make appropriate decisions or behave in a particular way without needing specialized knowledge or training. It is often associated with attributes such as sound thinking, rationality, wisdom and self-awareness.

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1. Common sense

   see Common sense, under Sense

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1. Common sense

   Common sense is defined by Merriam-Webster as, "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." Thus, "common sense" equates to the knowledge and experience which most people already have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as, "the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way". Whichever definition is used, identifying particular items of knowledge as "common sense" is difficult. Philosophers may choose to avoid using the phrase when using precise language. But common sense remains a perennial topic in epistemology and many philosophers make wide use of the concept or at least refer to it. Some related concepts include intuitions, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language, the frame problem, foundational beliefs, good sense, endoxa, axioms, wisdom, folk wisdom, folklore, and public opinion. Common-sense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience, and thus appear commensurate with human scale. Humans lack any common-sense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances [see Quantum mechanics], or of speeds approaching that of light [see Special relativity]. Often ideas that may be considered to be true by common sense are in fact false.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of common sense in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of common sense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of common sense in a Sentence

1. Scott Forseen:

   Answering in the affirmative on these items may be too embarrassing, may not make common sense, or may require the person to acknowledge some type of fault of their own, when we answer survey questions, we tend to answer in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.

2. Hubert Santos:

   It's common sense. A 1975 murder, a 1999 arrest. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no DNA, no trace evidence, you have to scratch your head, I would submit, and look at it in a very skeptical manner.

3. Steve Lamar:

   That is why we need governments to work together and with global financial institutions to make sure there are enough financial resources to keep supply chains solvent, so they can keep workers employed during these crises, common sense measures like deferring tariff payments and fully funding loan programs for retailers — now largely closed — are just two of the tools all governments should be implementing.

4. Robert Zwolinski:

   My common sense intuition said no way it would be her daughter because that in itself sounds so extreme.

5. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:

   I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=common sense
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Common_Sense
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common sense
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=common sense