“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears ...

Common sense is relatively objective — everyone believes they have it, but what it truly means and encompasses on a daily basis looks wildly different depending on the person, situation, and context, ...

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough of ...

Two summers ago, two teenage boys died while cliff diving into Lake Superior. At Black Beach, near Silver Bay, they apparently misjudged the dangerous waves and the shock of the frigid water. People ...

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important ...

In my last post, I argued that common sense was vastly over-rated as a tool for making sound judgments and that we need to engage in "reasoned sense" that includes both extensive direct experience and ...