CONCEPT OF COMMONSENSE- Sebastian Munduvelil(B09025)

                                                             Concept of Commonsense
Common sense, based on a strict construction of the term, consists of what people in common would agree on that which they sense as their common natural understanding. Some people use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that — in their opinion — most people would consider prudent and of sound judgment, without reliance on esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what they see as knowledge held by people in common. 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. However this is not the common dictionary definition. The most common meaning to the phrase is good sense and sound judgment in practical matters. It has nothing to do with what other people may think or feel. Whatever definition one uses, identifying particular items of knowledge as common sense becomes 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. Common-sense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience (such as good will), and thus appear commensurate with human scale. Often ideas that may be considered to be true by common sense are in fact false.
According to Aristotle, the common sense is an actual power of inner sensation whereby the various objects of the external senses (color for sight, sound for hearing, etc) are united and judged such that what one senses by this sense is the substance in which the various attributes inhere It was not, unlike later developments, considered to be on the level of rationality, which properly did not exist in the lower animals, but only in man; this irrational character was because animals not possessing rationality nevertheless required the use of the common sense in order to sense, for example, the difference between this or that thing, and not merely the pleasure and pain of various disparate sensations. Common sense, in this view, differs from later views in that it is concerned with the way one receives sensation, and not with belief, or wisdom held by many; accordingly, it is common, not in the sense of being shared among individuals, or being a genus of the different external senses, but in as much as it is a principle which governs the activity of the external senses.Appeal to common sense characterizes a general epistemological orientation called epistemological particularism.
 
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