If, 'What do the words 'common sense' ACTUALLY mean or refer to, to you?', were asked, individual, and EACH and EVERY one of your answers was written down at and revealed at the same time, the likely hood that the exact same words are written down would be just about zero.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:41 amCommon sense [archaic: vulgar sense] is often contrasted to the more rational conventional sense like rational & critical thinking, scientific thinking, and the likes.Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:01 am You haven't really refuted the common sense view, you've just declared it not rational.
The VERY REASON WHY 'you', human beings, have been disagreeing, disputing, arguing, and/or fighting over 'things' in so-called 'philosophical discussions' for millennia is because you ALL just use different descriptions and definitions for the words 'you' use.
It could even be argued that even 'common sense' is NOT even 'common' to 'you', adult human beings.
'you', people, bicker and fight over DIFFERENT 'things' on the presumption that they are the SAME 'thing'.
This will be DISCOVERED and REVEALED, thus CLEARLY SEEN once 'you' start CLARIFYING, correctly, with "each other".
Rational and critical thinking STARTS with questioning, and answering, OPENLY and Honest the ACTUAL 'thoughts' within one's OWN body, FIRST.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:41 amAs such what is there to refute.
With more refined thinking,
upon whatever is experienced or inferred via common sense, etc.,
a hypothesis is formed,
then it is tested with via verification and justification with the related empirical evidence,
whatever is inferred is subjected to peer review.
Surely it is obvious this is very different from common sense [vulgar sense] where anything goes.