Don’t bother looking up the definition. COMMON SENSE definition from the Cambridge English Dictionary is absurd:
“the ability to use good judgment in making decisions and to live in a reasonable and safe way.”
Then what the heck is intelligence, reason? What does ‘living’, in anyway: have to do with any sense, let alone a common one?
Common is belonging to a community, something equally known to all.
Sense according to Oxford is “a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.”
An ability is NOT a faculty. (That would be hard for most democrats, that is a concept versus a concept.)
Perception of an external stimuli, applied to known conditions results in: a common sense.
Those known conditions are what makes common sense, common.
All people to some degree have come in contact with another person. That contact results in knowledge. If that knowledge is then not applied the next time contact with a person is made the lack of the application of that ‘common sense’ always causes failure. Common sense is what is lacking in not repeating history.
So common sense is actually, the acquired knowledge of progression. If you have lived long enough to experience different things you will begin to collect that common knowledge as well. Should you decide to ignore it, there in lies a democrat.
Because democrats, meaning well: sadly, cannot fathom a concept. Since they cannot, they are unable to know, when their goal needs acquiring, and when it can just be dictated. The Democrat solution to a problem, is to impose the result. Common sense will tell anyone who paid attention to their life, that jumping to a conclusion is also quite fatal.
It is rather ironic that being aware of a standard, pretty much always the same progression of events leading up to something different: ie: the learning of progression, is missed by progressives. Fitting actually.
COMMON SENSE:
“Perception of an external stimuli, applied to known conditions.”
UPDATE 1/29/2025
Language is the best comparison to explain common sense.
According to Google’s AI ” (and I cannot list the sources they stole from because they don’t.)
“The exact origin of language is unknown, but scientists believe it likely developed gradually as early humans evolved the cognitive abilities to create complex sounds and gestures, potentially through a combination of imitating natural sounds, using gestures for communication, and developing the neural capacity to associate sounds with meaning, all within social contexts that required complex communication; this likely occurred alongside the evolution of modern Homo sapiens, around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago” [1]
Pretty close. Language started with simple sounds made by early human creatures. It began as sounds that became accepted. Known to mean a specific thing. That process took place over hundreds of years but the actual languages of isolated peoples, grew quickly, as the first people of that era to become fully self-aware, began separating themselves from those who only reacted to things, by the language their shared.
That shared language is the same as common sense. How?
There are steps in reaching a conclusion. Along the way there are events and tasks and things that always occur when headed to the same outcome. That outcome is either built from the collection of known and accepted things, to result in what is observed, or it remains not understood.
A person who ignores what it takes to reach an outcome (especially those known by almost all of sentient beings) is said to not have common sense. It is either lack of knowledge , i.e: ignorance: or it is a trained knowledge that is simply wrong. Most of what liberals believe it be true: is a lie.
Like a major topic on this site; Democracy. See Article 4 Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution [5]. That is the path to the outcome. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS NATION WHO’S CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT TO EVER BE EVEN WITHOUT EAR SHOT OF A DEMOCRACY.
Sorry, got carried away. I hate lies.
Liberals are mostly at a disadvantage due to their brain structure. Most liberals think in images. They think visually. That is supposed to be the female thinking dominance. Aural is supposed to be the male dominance.
Visual thinking people are at a disadvantage because they have to either see what is being referred to or hear a detailed enough description, to create their own mental picture.
When a visual thinking person is taught in writing it is almost a waste of time. Words themselves do not make images. Concepts make images but visual thinkers have a hard time comprehending a concept as it exists but it isn’t viewable.
They even came up with a disease if you don’t think in images.
Let’s go back to Google AI for this: Search (no quotes) “do not think in images in sound” and we get:
“It is estimated that roughly 4% of people have aphantasia. People with aphantasia report a lack of visual imagery, and 97% also report deficits in at least one other modality of imagery, like being unable to imagine certain sounds or tastes.” [2]
Leave it to a liberal to declare someone unlike them is DISEASED. There is no use in attempting to find sources for this it is absurd. OK couldn’t resist. Here is a prime example of liberals fully believing that how they think is the only way anyone should think.
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For all the liberals who cannot hear sound in their head, cannot talk to themselves, that’s bad. Most can do both but the brain is all based on dominance. One will be dominate and in control.
It is not 2 to 4 percent. USED TO BE MOST MALES WERE AURAL. Today most males are visual. A great deal like the men of Europe were and for the most part have slipped back to be : as Google AI describes this period in history:
“The European Renaissance and Reformation were periods in European history that influenced the continent’s religious, political, and cultural landscape. The Renaissance was a period of artistic and scientific discovery, while the Reformation was a religious movement that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.” [7]
MALES DEFAULT TO AURAL THINKING. Short and long term.
FEMALES DEFAULT TO VISUAL THINKING. Short and long term.
A great explanation of this is contained in the book THE BRAIN IS A WONDERFUL THING.. chapter 7 [3] i think. It is available on this site free at THIS LINK. [4]
If males were not aurally dominate they would not fight to the death. Males that are visually dominate also fight, but they don’t do it the same way. People would not have existed if males did not protect the species. Is that sexist? NO! GROW UP!
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+did+language+get+started
[2] Apparently this comes from Fortune
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Wonderful-Thing-Lee-Hempfling/dp/0359444911 if you really want a hard copy
[4] https://leehempfling.com/TBIAWT/
[5] Here’s Google AI again with their own defition: (stolen from somewhere) “Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution guarantees a republican form of government to each state, and protects them from invasion and domestic violence.”
[6] https://creativerevolution.io/aphantasia-a-blind-minds-eye/
[7] AI Google Search: europe reformation renaissance