What is common sense

Question

it seems as if not many people on y/a have it

what do you think

Answer 1

It is aomething you either have or you don't.  It is when a person uses his intuition,  I don't think Y/A answerers don't have it.  They just like to have a little fun with their questions and or answers.

Don't take Y/A so seriously.  I have learned that a long time ago.  In the beginning it used to annoy me too.

Answer 2

OH I don't know.. common sense I guess everybody has a bit.. Don't cross the road when the lights are red for pedestrians.. that is common sense. I am sure someone would have to be very stupid not to understand that... common sense is to do the obvious'' If it says '' No bathing here, water full of chemicals, then if someone takes a dive into such a pond, that's not common sense.

Answer 3

not alot of ppl in life have it

Answer 4

Well, you're in S&C. What can you expect.

Answer 5

actually everyone have common sense but they just like to do things their way to make themselves  happy that could or might have hurt someone else without their knowledge.   everybody learns from mistakes so just give those who have spoke or done something unhappy to u, a chance to change.  we try to let them understand so we could have more friends then to create 1 enemy.  relax dear......

Answer 6

I think that you are correct in what you say.  There are some really dumb questions that are posted.  Do you think it is just that people are bored and have nothing else to do?  I like y/a because I genuinely like to help people out and I would like to be helped if I ever need it.  And sometimes (in the right area) you can learn some things.

Answer 7

Common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense, or commonsensical), based on a strict construction of the term, consists of what people in common would agree on: that which they "sense" (in common) as their common natural understanding. Some people[who?] 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" (in this view) equates to the knowledge and experience which most people allegedly have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have.

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. Some related concepts include intuitions, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language, the frame problem, foundational beliefs, good sense, endoxa, and axioms.

Common-sense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience (such as good will), and thus appear commensurate with human scale. Humans lack any commonsense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances; or speeds approaching that of light.