What is the knowledge which is applied (repeated) on different things by different people in different ways? Identify and use it meticulously in order to establish that your intellectual capability to apply, articulate and acquire knowledge is not inferior to the intellect of your fellow human beings!
Everyone who cannot identify the common properties of different things will lack common sense. The common properties allow the effective functioning of common sense. Going by the definition of common, being able to predict a future reaction based on well-known behavior of something (a property), is common sense. It’s not an individual preference…because then it wouldn’t be common. Every scientific method is a structured process whose structure is based on the knowledge of the common properties observed of different familiar things.
Wow, this is strange since this expression of what common sense is, is very close to a definition I generally use. Regardless, first and foremost, it gets away from defining common sense as what the majority of people believe to going back to the notion that the “common” in common sense is referring to a common reality perceived by senses we all share in common. This common reality, that is made up of particular things that share a common essence, a common property, leads one to be able to predict a future reaction since properties of a thing follow the nature, or the property of a thing. Common sense, as in the sense of common expected judgment, is a natural out-growth of thinking clearly about common properties in well-known behavior patterns. Of course, it’s not just individual preference since it is expected this judgment follows naturally from thinking about these common properties
Common sense has nothing to do with personal opinion. It is the ability to take well known facts and make a logical prediction of what will happen from a given action based upon those facts. For example, we know that fire is hot, and heat burns. These are common properties of fire. By using those properties we can say the common sense is that fire will burn you if you touch it
Not all literates are analysts, and not all analysts are literates! Analytical thinking doesn’t require literacy. It needs only an understanding of the subject being considered. Many people who are literate lack the capacity to truly comprehend what they have read, and therefore they are not analysts.
Everyone who cannot identify the common properties of different things will lack common sense. It is not impossible to make teaching and learning simpler provided if you have the intelligence to identify and use the common properties of different things!
Source: analytical.wikia.com
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