Something I'm pondering about....

[Hyperblaze]

We all know that common sense isn't common, wondering if we develop common sense through life experiences?

Makes sense to me....

 

[GagHalfrunt]

We all know that common sense isn't common, wondering if we develop common sense through life experiences?

I think you're born with it or you're not. You might eventually learn not to use a torch to peer inside a gas tank, but that isn't common sense, it's simply remember past injuries. Common sense in having the ability to know that isn't a good idea in the first place before you burn your eyebrows off.

 

[Newbian]

We need more pictures...

 

[Hyperblaze]

I think you're born with it or you're not. You might eventually learn not to use a torch to peer inside a gas tank, but that isn't common sense, it's simply remember past injuries. Common sense in having the ability to know that isn't a good idea in the first place before you burn your eyebrows off.

Either you were told when you were much younger, or you know the properties of fire and gas. Which you would of learned through life experiences....

 

[Crono]

I think people confuse common sense and basic logic.

 

[TheVrolok]

We need more pictures...

The second one was my first thought. Love that pic.

 

[Newbian]

I think people confuse common sense and basic logic.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The ability to generalize from past experience and apply it to new situations (better known as common sense) is a skill like making change and washing dishes, not everyone has the facility to learn it.

 

[destrekor]

Either you were told when you were much younger, or you know the properties of fire and gas. Which you would of learned through life experiences....

This.

Common sense is experiences applied to the present.
Social creatures do not need to directly experience something to know of the experience. It is taught or learned, but for social creatures, it was most definitely experienced at some point and the knowledge passed on, and re-experienced for the poor soles missing a few neurons.

Instincts are what we are born with, of which all boil down to self preservation.
Instincts combine with experience, but not always. Instincts for humans are vastly different, we have control over them, until we can actually judge that our life truly is on the line, then most thinking is thrown out the window as the body just sends signals to do whatever actions are necessary to escape the immediate danger.

But yes, common sense itself is simply experience that is impressed upon every individual in some shape or form. The degree of how well one was taught certain experiences, and how much unnecessary risk a person will willingly force their mind to endure, is what determines a perceived level of common sense. For us, that also translates into the social environment where the risk of physical harm is absent, but social harm remains as a risk.

 

[Crono]

Simply: common sense is applying basic logic to a situation, given what is the "expected" knowledge and skill for that situation.

Common sense is behaving logically given (whether through past experience or currently presented knowledge) at least the most essential and pertinent information.

 

[darkxshade]

If common sense isn't common then shouldn't it be uncommon sense?