Logocentrism

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Common sense has become so common now as a kind of mantra that even those using forget what it signifies. “Common” is right there in the term! If you are going to rely on just “common sense” or common sense over rigorous knowledge and educated conjecture, you have no reason to blowing your hard-earned money down a hole at an institution of higher learning.

That is why it’s called “higher learning”, because it aims at something “higher” than the vulgarity of common sense.

I don’t think it wise to flush down the toilet the usage of “Common-Sense”:

Ann Behav Med. 2010 Dec 7.
Cognitive Science Speaks to the “Common-Sense” of Chronic Illness Management.

Leventhal H, Leventhal EA, Breland JY.

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, 112 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

Abstract
We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavioral heuristics (executive functions parallel to recent findings in cognitive science) involved in monitoring and modifying automatic control processes; (4) Perceiving and communicating to “other minds” during medical visits to address the declarative and non-declarative (perceptual and procedural) knowledge that comprise a patient’s representations of illness and treatment (the transparency of other minds).
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Common sense has become so common now as a kind of mantra that even those using forget what it signifies. “Common” is right there in the term! If you are going to rely on just “common sense” or common sense over rigorous knowledge and educated conjecture, you have no reason to blowing your hard-earned money down a hole at an institution of higher learning.

That is why it’s called “higher learning”, because it aims at something “higher” than the vulgarity of common sense.

Before science, it was “common sense” to think the world was flat. It turns out that a “flat earth” actually is a pretty effective first-order approximation of the reality of our world, for most common and practical senses. Flat earthers way back when weren’t stupid, they were just ignorant, and did not have the benefit of tools and methods that freed them from the ignorance of “common sense” to have a deeper, more performative approximation of the world around them. Someone a thousand years ago may have been “flabbergasted” to learn that the world is really roughly spherical, or that the earth goes around the sun, rather than the other way around, which is what “common sense” told the masses.

Bad example touchstone. I cannot think of a time when all of humanity (common) thought the earth was flat.One ancient science-lesson as to the shape of the earth appeared in the Old Testament, the Bible itself.
‘It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth:’ (Is. 40:22.)

That the earth is a globe was also the conclusion of ancient reasoning. They knew the shape of the earth as seen on the moon during an eclipse is always a full sphere. That would not be the case if the earth were a flat disc. The shifting position of stars as man moved north or south also demonstrated to them a sphere and of course the fact that ships appear and disappear over the horizon illustrates the curved nature of the earth. As astronomy was man’s first science flatearthism was never the common belief.

That said your reply was excellent.

Now babartos, I think what you landed in was a nest of ‘animal-rights’ converts. As an anti-animal-rights activist on the streets of Dublin I have had ample opportunity to talk to them and find out their reasoning. All evolutionists to the core, that philosophy convinces them they are animals and thus no more than equal to their relatives in the animal (and plant) world. Many of these people are atheists and agnostics which support their reasoning.