Common sense
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About
Common sense may refer to the following:
- a shared understanding of reality, a "common sense" of what that reality is - a common sense that the world is very messed up
- a strong intuitive feeling, not necessarily accurate, that something is obvious - you can't change genders; that's just common sense or (conversely) you can't get free energy by plugging a power-strip into itself; that's just common sense
Definition #2 often consists of simple heuristics (rules/guidelines) that are usually right. The problem happens when someone mistakes the map for the territory, and assumes that since the heuristics don't mention any exceptions, the exceptions must not exist.