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Jon, List
Common sense is what a child learns before the age
of six. The innovations of one generation become the common sense of the
next generation.
The common sense of European culture is
based on a version of Plato-Aristotle
that has been absorbed into the European languages and life.
John, list,
I would rather guess, that common sense is feeling learned or inherited from a community, like for example: Learned from family, friends, culture, scientific community, epigenetically and genetically inherited from ancestors, genetically inherited from species (humans), and the oth
Supplement: To get back to the topic, I would ask, if common sense itself is discontinuous, because it consists of discrete feelings caused by discrete taxonomic classes, can then be there a common sense about continuity? I guess not, and suspect, that continuity is a mathematical concept, who
Dear John F S,
You give a description of common sense as though it is simply early
childhood learning, its developments, and cultural accretion rather than
also including a deeper, tempered human nature. That is not what Peirce
meant by common sense when he drew from the Scottish common sensis
List:
JAS: While browsing through Peirce's various manuscripts whose subject
matter Robin categorized as "Topical Geometry" (R 137-163), I came across R
144, which is titled "On General Topic" and undated.
I contacted Andre De Tienne to find out whether the Peirce Edition Project
has determined
Helmut and Gene,
The point I was trying to make is that
diagrammatic reasoning is the basic method of reasoning in all aspects of
life. It includes the most abstract methods of mathematics and the most
mundane aspects of everyday life.
If the diagrams are based
on formally defined patterns
