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SusanofO -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 3:41:36 PM)

I agree. I sometimes think people who have great intuition can be talked out of it in the name of being "nice" - then they can be taken advantage of sometimes (I know it's happened to me). - Susan 



ownedgirlie -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 4:13:04 PM)

~ fast reply ~

Common sense:  using sound and prudent judgment, coming from experiences, notions, intuitiveness.

Foolishness:  Add "not" to the above.



kisshou -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 4:14:38 PM)

common sense is knowing to come in out of the rain

(that is what my mom always said) :)



youQadesh -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 6:11:05 PM)

common sense

NOUN:


Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge; native good judgment.





ETYMOLOGY:
Translation of Latin s[image]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/edu/ref/ahd/s/emacr.gif[/image]nsus comm[image]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/edu/ref/ahd/s/umacr.gif[/image]nis, common feelings of humanity
                                                                                                                          -dictionary definition from yahoo! education


Isn't it common sense to look up a word in the dictionary when you want the definition?   [;)]

edit;  had to add the declarative winky smiley face






Passion357 -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 7:16:00 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Caretakr

Common sense is simply thinking things out in a rational and flexible manner to make your desires come true-you fit your needs into the framework of reality.

Foolishness is insisting that reality meet your fantasy-but being too lazy or ignorant to do the work to make it happen.


Exactly :-)



Chantilylace -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 7:18:49 PM)

Common sense is what your mind instantly knows is right or smart.
 
Foolishness is NOT listening to your common sense.  LOL



truesub4u -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 11:27:06 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: krikket

an oxymoron.


Yep... thought of that later.. but couldn't go back to my post....lol



Lordandmaster -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 11:33:18 PM)

"Common sense" is a handy phrase you can use in order to imply that what you think is right is right for everyone else, too.  People just call it "common sense" so that what they say doesn't sound as offensive as it really is.

There was a time when "common sense" meant believing that the earth must be flat.  And that the sun rotates around the earth.

quote:

ORIGINAL: KnightofMists

So what is your idea of Common Sense!?



Lordandmaster -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 11:38:01 PM)

That's misleading.  "Sensus communis" is the Latin translation of the Greek "koine aisthesis" (as in Aristotle), which is also translated as "common sense" in philosophical literature, but it doesn't refer to what we ordinarily mean by "common sense" today.  "Sensus communis" and "koine aisthesis" refer to the part of a conscious life form that interprets all the data reported by the various sense organs and renders it into a coherent whole.  In other words, it's the "common," or "shared" sense, as opposed to all the other disparate senses.  We normally think of the mind as the "common sense" in that meaning.

(For example, see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/notes.html, footnote 18: "Note that the Aristotelian concept of koine aisthesis, although it translates literally as 'common sense,' is unrelated to the modern colloquial meaning of that expression.")

quote:

ORIGINAL: youQadesh

ETYMOLOGY:
Translation of Latin s[image]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/edu/ref/ahd/s/emacr.gif[/image]nsus comm[image]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/edu/ref/ahd/s/umacr.gif[/image]nis, common feelings of humanity
                                                                                                                        -dictionary definition from yahoo! education



Kedikat -> RE: common sense! (7/1/2006 11:43:33 PM)

Everybodys situation in society is different. So some may be able to do some incredible 24/7 to the edge life. Others may only have the odd stolen moment.

And everyone has the different levels of desires as to time and actions.

I can't say some are crazy............maybe I might envy.......





Padriag -> RE: common sense! (7/2/2006 1:05:32 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Caretakr

Common sense is simply thinking things out in a rational and flexible manner to make your desires come true-you fit your needs into the framework of reality.

Foolishness is insisting that reality meet your fantasy-but being too lazy or ignorant to do the work to make it happen.

Very well said, I concur



youQadesh -> RE: common sense! (7/2/2006 7:32:19 AM)

That is interesting.  Who knew you couldn't rely on Yahoo! Education for your etymology education? [:D]

Though I wonder...Mabye since the original greek translations and its meaning has nothing to do with modern day concepts of common sense, but the later latin translation does, the etymology of our modern day "common sense" is theLatin translation rather than Greek. 

-M



Lordandmaster -> RE: common sense! (7/2/2006 12:25:02 PM)

No, because the Latin term "sensus communis" doesn't mean what we call "common sense" either.  I wouldn't be surprised if our expression "common sense" derives ultimately from the philosophical idea, but that would be long after people stopped speaking Latin.

I'm not too surprised that you can't rely on Yahoo Education.  Web resources are VERY unreliable.  You really have to know how to handle them.

quote:

ORIGINAL: youQadesh

Though I wonder...Mabye since the original greek translations and its meaning has nothing to do with modern day concepts of common sense, but the later latin translation does, the etymology of our modern day "common sense" is theLatin translation rather than Greek. 



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