McCarthy's advice-taker proposal of 1958 represents an early proposal to use logic for representing common-sense knowledge in mathematical logic and using an automated theorem prover to derive answers ...
Epistemology Continuing the tradition of Reid and the enlightenment generally, the common sense of individuals trying to understand reality continues to be a serious subject in philosophy. In America ...
Immanuel Kant developed a new variant of the idea of sensus communis, noting how having a sensitivity for what opinions are widely shared and comprehensible gives a sort of standard for judgment, and ...
Epistemology: common sense versus claims of certainty During the Enlightenment, Descartes' insistence upon a mathematical-style method of thinking which treated common sense and the sense perceptions ...
One of the last notable philosophers to accept something like the Aristotelian "common sense" was Descartes in the 16th century, but he also under-mined it. He described this inner faculty when writin ...
"Sensus communis" is the Latin translation of koinē aesthēsis which came to be recovered by Medieval scholastics when discussing perception. However, in earlier Latin during the Roman empire the ter ...
The origin of the term is in the works of Aristotle. The most well-known such case is De Anima Book III, chapter 2, especially at line 425a27. The passage is about how the animal mind converts raw sen ...
Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for ...
